Ca’ Beguzzi
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4 October 1944 , Ca’ Beguzzi, district in the Marzabotto commune (Bologna, Emilia Romagna)
- Involved Unit
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unknown
- Culprits
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Unidentified
- Victims
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18 (number of women, children and elderly people killed in Ca’ Beguzzi itself)
- Armed forces
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Waffen-SS
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Massacre of the survivors
Literature:
Luca Baldissara, Paolo Pezzino, Il massacro. Guerra ai civili a Monte Sole, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009, pp. 245-249, 586.
Dario Zanini, Marzabotto e dintorni, 1944, Bologna, Ponte nuovo, 1996, pp. 529-531.
Authorship and translation
Author: Carlo Gentile
Translated from German by: Joel Golb
© Project ‘The Massacres in Occupied Italy (1943-1945): Integrating the Perpetrators’ Memories’
2023