Ca’ Beguzzi

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Involved Unit

unknown

Commander

16. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Reichsführer-SS"

Culprits

Unidentified

Victims

18 (number of women, children and elderly people killed in Ca’ Beguzzi itself)

Armed forces

Waffen-SS

• Massacre of the survivors

  Ca’ Beguzzi is located between La Quercia and Gardelletta, west of the Setta River.

  On 4 or 5 Oct. an unidentified SS-unit arrived in Ca' Beguzzi, where some survivors of the past days’ massacres, including wounded persons, had found shelter. The unit, under the command of an SS Hauptsturmführer, consisted of eighteen men.

  The soldiers pulled all men fit for work from their hiding places and divided them into two groups. The first group was brought to Ca' Belvedere to do cleaning for the anticipated billeting of the unit. The other group had to dig the machine-gun emplacements. After completing these tasks, the men from both groups were brought to the edge of a cliff to be shot. Some survived, because they had either not been mortally wounded or else leaped from the cliff before they were hit.

  Returning to their shelter, they learned that all those they had left behind were dead: eighteen individuals, including women, children, and elderly people, had been shot to death at the doorway or in their beds.