It’s a 70’s film of the bomb in Via Rasella. This bombing attack was done by partisans forces of the GAP against the Bozen regiment. German response is remembered as the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine ( an old roman era mine ). SS and SD commanded by Herbert Kappler executed 335 roman civilian (10 civilian for each german soldier dead ). In the days before, german command warned partisan forces that any act of aggression against german army will bring to harsh retaliation. Very sad days.......
This attack happened for real. It's the Attack of Via Rasella and it's still very controversial in Italy. At the time the Italian Resistance was organized in a central commitee called CLN and was divided in two groups: the first one wanted to support the allied invasion and not attack too much as not to provoke German reprisals while the second one (mostly communists) wanted to attack German as to provoke a mass revolution in the country. They placed this bomb which killed a military police officers unit and not soldiers. The Germans did a reprisal (Massacre of Fosse Ardeatine) and the group who did the attack went into hiding to avoid capture
The Germans then killed innocent people. The Italian Resistance should have fought them on the street, not run way like cowards. These type of incidents cause many civilians to lose their lives.
The attack was carried out by the communist groups, they knew that in the "Regina Coeli" prison in Rome there were partisan leaders of other parties but there were no communists, we in Italy say kill two birds with one stone, that is to say they got rid of the leaders partisans of the other parties and unleashed the hatred of the Romans against the Germans
funny the sentence "the group who did the attack went into hiding to avoid capture" never heard of someone that after the attack didn't at least tried to avoid capture.
They were indoctrinated to do so. Look up the My Lai massacre. America's guilty of flying off the rails from time to time even though most of Americans weren't indoctrinated like them. People are people throw an autocratic government in the mix and the veneer of civilization polishes right off
Unfortunately they were not the only army to to take it out on Innocent civilians. The English Army took many reprisals on the innocent Irish civilians during their occupation of Ireland.
I think this video shows the partisan attack in via rasella in Rome. The days after many innocent Italians will be killed in the Fosse Ardeatine; among these there was also the uncle of my grandpa. May his soul rest in peace
@@RaySuke77 You sound like the U.S. did nothing and didn't Almost single handedly complete the Pacific Island shopping Campaign while at the same time sending millions of Troops to Europe and Africa and supplying GB and The Soviet Union with Vehicles and Ammo for 2 years.
Yes, the French underground too, because it's impossible to understand if it's one of them or a civilian, so they can prepare traps even in front of the enemy, so it's easier to have good effects from them
spud pud Hopefully ( for you ) you’re not american!!!.... Because if you are, and the reason why I’m wondering is simply that ONLY Americans criticizes other countries..., remember that is better to have ancient roads that the Social problems that you have!!! Ohps, Sorry, I forgot that you’re the greatest😂
@@guypalumbo7892 i'm an american and paponeable is right, the US is embarrassing itself on a near daily basis, and our chronic social problems are a big reason why. also, and you should know this as an american of italian origin, there are in fact other countries on this planet where people are under no obligation to learn or speak english.
HOW TO AVOID BEING THE TARGET OF A RESISTANCE ATTACK: Lesson 1: Do not go into other people's countries bearing arms. If, for any reason, you do find yourself in other peoples' country bearing arms, leave as soon as possible, preferably immediately.
Isn't this in Italy? You know, that country that was on Germany's side and started invading countries before Hitler did... Then called Germany on two separate fronts to bail them out only to change sides to being their enemy when the going got tough??? No wonder Germany "occupied" it.
@Frankly Frank That version is however at odds with both facts and history. But I applaud your attempt. Britain and the Commonwealth stopped Hitler at sea. Stopped them in the air and stopped them on land (el alamein) before a single American joined in. Maybe we couldn't have re invaded Europe alone but he couldn't beat us either. Russia would have lost Kursk and possibly the war if it wasn't for the "Hungarian spy" that turned out to be enigma intercept at bletchly park giving the Soviets all the German battle plans. Britain also provided a quarter of all the tanks and planes that stopped Hitler at Moscow. Britain was the only one of the nation's you stated that took the fight to Hitler. Both the others waited until the war came to them. Remember, even new Zealand was fighting Hitler before big brave America or Russia who was actually on the same side as Hitler initially. If you call that "waiting for the cavalry" then you've got issues.
If someone's new around here this is the historical context: In March 1944 an Italian partisan named Rosario Bentivegna, pretending to be a street sweeper, set up a bomb in Via Rasella that killed 30 soldiers of SS Police Regiment "Bozen" (it was not an important unit nor an Elite one, most of them were recruits and middle aged men). After the attack SS troops took reprisals against Italian civilians, executing 335 (10 for each German killed) in Fosse Ardeatine (an old mine in the outskirts of Rome). During that terrible event a priest tried to save civilians and offered his own life in exchange, the SS beaten him and still killed everyone. None of the buildings in Via Rasella has been restored, bullet and shrapnel holes are still visible. There are no restaurants nor colorful decorations there.
From the consequence of this bombing act, I would say that the Italian partisan Rosario Bentivegna was the enemy of his own people. He did this cowardly act despite knowing that there will be reprisal attacks on his civilians. This is surely one way to bring harm to a neighborhood by provoking occupational forces anywhere: 🇮🇶, 🇦🇫 etc
@@samgauss7743 it was NOT that obvious that there would be a reprsial. I mean, in this event yes, but it was not that common that germans killed people just because (atleast in Rome, the capitol that caused more problems to germans), yes they killed people, but there was NO manifesto saying "every german soldier killed, we kill 10 people", no. Everybody knew germand killed people, but it was not public.
@@samgauss7743 also, the people that were killed were not civilians (i mean, they were, but they were imprisoned because of the race laws, so they were prisoners), and werent even considered good people by nazi and fas governments... In fact all the people that were killed were jews or communists, that we know were not seen good by Nazis, and they even said "no innocents were killed"... This attack caused the germans not to send theyr soldiers in reserve, because they were most likely killed if they went in reserve to Rome... even one allied officer (i don't remember now who it was) said that this attack really helped the moral of the troops, because they knew that the city they were about to free was with them, and would help fighting germans...
it wasn't a patrol, the SS police marched through at the same time daily as a show of strength to the Romans. the arrogance of the Germans never conceived the resistance would dare attack them.
The film doesn't show everything... You cannot expect a squad compose by like 10 partisans (because yes, when they tell you there are secret partisans in Rome you expect big things... they were really few) to eliminate an entire squad of more than 150 germans, in fact: After the bomb exploded, the partisand threw grenade (that were not even grenade, they were mortar shells modified to he thrown) to the line, then started shooting, but unfortunately, they did not have brilliant and polished guns, they were most likely really old guns (in fact they got guns from the high commands of the monarchy army, that were not all that fascists and collaborated with partisans, giving them rusty guns), and guns got jammed... immediatly after, an italian police man, hearing all this shooting, went looking with his pistol in hand, and unfortunately he got shot by the germans, still confused by the bombs... That night Hitler got really angry, in fact (i don't remember who, but like a really close person) wrote in his book that "he has seen Hitler out of him, full of anger, in two occasions: when they didn't destroyed Paris when allies were invading France, and when he heard about Via Rasella"", so Hitler wanted 50 italians ( obviously not innocent, for nazi and fas government, so jews and communists) to be killed, but the high commands said that this would cause a rebellion in Rome, so in the night they convinced him to kill """"just"""" 10 person per killed german... and so the day later the massacre of Fosse Ardeatine took place... Hope it's all clear, I'm italian, and i wrote like in english with italian grammar, I'm sorry😅
The main tragedy of Partisans killing of German soldiers was the severe and extreme reprisals carried out by the Germans, in some cases the Germans killed entire villages or towns as reprisals.
@@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 He is right though, this didn't accomplish anything and only led to the massacre of innocent people, and these kind of situations happend all over the place. Such bravery when it's not your life on the line. Partisans that sabotaged infrastructure, spied and generally hindered the strategic capacity of the Germans should be deemed of merit, committing random murders that will lead to further murders of your own people is just cowardice and criminal
@@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 he's speaking facts, you can't deny it, it's better to left them alone rather than getting more innocent people killed because of your action
Quello che molti non sanno è che quella era una pattuglia di sudtirolesi, cioè italiani di lingua tedesca...quindi non veri tedeschi , e perciò sacrificabili
Barbarians landed in Sicily , Salerno and Normandy led by their chieftains in London and Washington, Caesar and true romans were trenched from Naples untill Berlin
Now we know why soldiers say that " War is Hell". That is what my dad said and his brother. Both were in WW2. My dad was in the Battle of The Buldge. He died on Nov.26th,2011. He was 95.
Your dad is an American hero, would have loved to have known him. Maybe he is talking to my dad up there, he was a LRRP in Vietnam and passed 10/17/18...May they both rest easy, their missions complete.
@@orvillebrown7235 I did not know that. Thanks for the information. My dad was told that by a WW1 soldier. That WW1 soldier was also in WW2. He was a POW in WW2.
@@alessiog876 Is that a represantation of Italy when they invaded Greece and needed to be bailed by Germany afterwards? Nice, they helped you in any way they could in your wars in Libya and Greece, and you repayed them by a stab in the back. And no BS about "evil dictator man" - Hungary fought on until the end with Germany. Broes stay together, they don't betray one another.
Only the Fascist supporters of Mussolini supported and fought for the Nazi's. The Italian Partisans led by the Communist never fought for the Nazi's and had been fighting the Nazi's since Mussolini had come to power...but I guess you already knew that right?
It’s all clear looking backwards. Before the war, a lot of western leaders liked Hitler, including Americans. Like Hitler, the CCP, also uses deception.
those are communist partisans who were always against Mussolini's fascists' and Nazis when they came too, they were the ones who executed Mussolini.. the CIA rigged the Italian election after the war or else the communists would have ruled Italy after the war with all their war heroics against fascist and nazis
I love the fact he told the granny to go inside.... The Germans were later shooting at the windows after the attack, there must have been many people looking out of the balcony after the blast too
A famous Italian professor during a public lesson told this particular (gathered from the stories given by the group of partisans that acted out this attack): there was a group of kids playing with a ball around there: the first to ask them to leave was Carla, the girlfriend of Rosario (the guy who fired the bomb) but they did not listen. After her another partisan decided to act more efficiently and kicked the ball far far away from the street. The kids angry called him "son of a b*tch" and followed the ball, so they survived.
Bravo to over ONE MILLION brave Italians who fought against the hated socialists from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during WW2! Italians are very heroic people! -- With love from Việt-Nam
Most partisans were Communist and the majority of Italians did not like the partisans. They would hide in the mountains and come down and attack the Germans then run back into the mountains. The Germans would retaliate unfortunately on the innocent people while the partisans hide in the mountains like cowards and watched as the Germans told the partisans to come down and face the consequences. The partisans did not care that their actions caused innocent people to be harmed. The vast majority of Italians did not like partisans for this reason and for the fact they were Communist.
I agree. My dad was a second world war solider and he told us the same thing as what you just related! The partisans were cowards and also wanted to lute the Germans.
@@ronbonora7872 By being the only ones who dared to resist N@zi occupation instead of collaborating with the Salo Republic. I think the cowardly could be projection on your ancestor's part.
They weren't "Germans", they were Tyroleans from South Tyrol. South Tyrol was 'annexed' from Austria by Italy just after WW1. So they were "Italians". There was 'bad blood' between Tyroleans and Italians.
I remember seeing something about the Southern Tyrol forces in an Osprey book on Resistance warfare. If I understood what I read they were more of a police or security unit recruited by the Germans. Ironically it wasn't unusual for the Germans to recruit foreigners, some of whom weren't exactly "Ayran" in terms of racial profiling, but they were often deployed to the Waffen SS. I'm not sure if the unit in question was SS.
It seems strange to me that the Germans avenged people that were not their race, I didn't know they did that, too. In Greece, they showed real menace to Italians after they left them and many Greeks saved Italians, even though they were their enemy before. Italians were not as cruel and as barbarians as Nazi Germans and Greeks liked them and felt sorry for them in the end.
People still have nightmares after listening to this terrifying march outside their doors, especially at night when all lights had to be put out and the Germans could barge in any home without warning and kill innocent civilians for nothing. As a child after listening to stories of survivors of this war and the famine that followed in my country, I watched this in films and their presence still upsets me and scares me as an adult. There is nothing hilarious about it.
Its very convenient when the occupying force marches in packed parade order, loudly clicking their heels and calling time and paying no heed to the hostile territory around them. That makes for such a realistic movie.
Actually, it happened just like that. The video shows the "Via Rasella" attack, in 44. The attack, carried on by the Italian Resistance, was against the 11th company of the polizeiregiment "botzen" just after the company shooting range session. As the attackers, the survivors, and the witnesses tell, the company marched chanting every day on the same road. In that period, Rome was a Hell for the Germans, with almost 1 resistance attack every 2 days, and the soldiers were marching with their weapons safe off, ready to fire. In fact, the civil victims of the attack were killed by the soldiers, who fired against the houses and palaces windows believing that the attack came from there, while it actually came from the road.
It was the bloodiest attack against the axis occupation throughout all the war, with 33 death. Hitler himself is said to have looked so angry only that time and when Heydrich died. He demanded 50 Italians killed for every Germans, but Kesselring, the leader of the German force in Italy, convinced him that if they did so the city would have revolted so bad that they wouldn't be able to retake it. So they decided to kill 10 italians for every German. They killed 335 Italians the next day, the event is known as the slaughter of Fosse Ardeatine, perpetrated by the SS officer Kappler.
@@sono_un_feik_1080 i dont think hitler would have even gotten notice when 33 people die. Sorry but in this war a few thousand died every day. 33 german soldiers were lost in the eastern front within 20 minutes probably, 24/7
@@uhuhuhx4806 the point obviously wasn't just the fact that 33 soldiers died, but the fact that 33 soldiers died in a terrorist (partisan) attack in an occupied Capital that was really close to a vital front. It's the single most deadly partisan attack in an occupied city in all ww2. The attack enormously boosted Italian Partisan's and Allied troops morale, and destroyed the German's. Rome should have been a relaxing place for soldiers to rest between the weeks at the front, but instead became a carnage for German soldiers (more than 1 killed a Day). It's not only a matter of numbers, but a matter of morale and fighting capability of troops. General Alexander (USA) himself said that the Partisan activity in Rome was vital for the Allies, because US soldiers knew that the enemies weren't safe anywhere and that their morale was low.
The Germans didn’t like the Italians from the beginning. The Germans looked at them as less than usual. The Germans were always putting the Italians in doing the most dangerous fighting and given no credit. The Germans were taking all of the credit. CWA
+Batoni Daboni Italian underground was only a real threat in the final two months of the war. It's also true that the German army shot some Italian people, but in some cases these executions were legal under the Geneva Convention. Still a terrible tragedy.
Funny that you'd say so, because this is actually based on a real event and seems to be pretty faithful to it too. A large IED was hidden in a rubbish cart, 28 SS were killed immediately with many wounded, ambushing partisans also fired on the column, final death toll 42, no partisan casualties.
In reality the “germans” weren’t SS as pictured here, but a military police force composed by northern Italians of German language from Alto Adige/Sudtirol, compulsory drafted into the German Army after Italian armistice; only the officers were from Germany. But this is what war does: you ignore the men under the uniform and you just fight it.
If you search on google maps via Rasella, Rome, you can see all the bullet holes inside buildings fired by Germans moments after the attack. They are still there. P.S. I live Rome
2:44 Soldier at the end and on the left cycles the bolt on his rifle twice without firing a shot. It's not uncommon during battle to become confused and disoriented, during the muzzle loader era a high number of rifles recovered after engagements were found to be double charged and not even fired (thankfully), assumes the rifleman was dazed and confused and simply overloaded during a panic situation.
Ich hatte mal Deutsche Freunde, die wurden größenwahnsinnig und schluckten am Ende wie Feiglinge Giftkapseln und der Rest leugnete alles.... Also meine Deutsche Freunde wurden Feiglinge oder Verlierer inklusive Vaterlands-Verräter, such es dir aus von wem du stammst ... Dein Verlierer.
@@jak9338 Shut the fuck up! El Alamein, Raid of Alessandria, battle of Izbushesky and Battle of Nikolajewka! Before writing stupid things in comments, study! Ignorant
I love how they captured the silent shock and frustrated confusion after the explosion.. wow.
It’s a 70’s film of the bomb in Via Rasella.
This bombing attack was done by partisans forces of the GAP against the Bozen regiment.
German response is remembered as the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine ( an old roman era mine ).
SS and SD commanded by Herbert Kappler executed 335 roman civilian (10 civilian for each german soldier dead ).
In the days before, german command warned partisan forces that any act of aggression against german army will bring to harsh retaliation.
Very sad days.......
This attack happened for real. It's the Attack of Via Rasella and it's still very controversial in Italy. At the time the Italian Resistance was organized in a central commitee called CLN and was divided in two groups: the first one wanted to support the allied invasion and not attack too much as not to provoke German reprisals while the second one (mostly communists) wanted to attack German as to provoke a mass revolution in the country. They placed this bomb which killed a military police officers unit and not soldiers. The Germans did a reprisal (Massacre of Fosse Ardeatine) and the group who did the attack went into hiding to avoid capture
The Germans then killed innocent people. The Italian Resistance should have fought them on the street, not run way like cowards. These type of incidents cause many civilians to lose their lives.
@@ronbonora7872 commies are cowards.
The attack was carried out by the communist groups, they knew that in the "Regina Coeli" prison in Rome there were partisan leaders of other parties but there were no communists, we in Italy say kill two birds with one stone, that is to say they got rid of the leaders partisans of the other parties and unleashed the hatred of the Romans against the Germans
@@JesusIsUnstoppable Name checks out.
funny the sentence "the group who did the attack went into hiding to avoid capture"
never heard of someone that after the attack didn't at least tried to avoid capture.
The sad fact is that: the Germans had the very bad habit of taking retribution on the innocent locals.
I think you left out the word habit.
They were indoctrinated to do so. Look up the My Lai massacre. America's guilty of flying off the rails from time to time even though most of Americans weren't indoctrinated like them. People are people throw an autocratic government in the mix and the veneer of civilization polishes right off
Unfortunately they were not the only army to to take it out on Innocent civilians. The English Army took many reprisals on the innocent Irish civilians during their occupation of Ireland.
Those “innocent” civilians were the ones responsible for these attacks
@@smithyman33 : No, not always, when British spies killed SS chief Reinhard Heydrich in Poland, they rounded up innocent people and killed them.
I think this video shows the partisan attack in via rasella in Rome. The days after many innocent Italians will be killed in the Fosse Ardeatine; among these there was also the uncle of my grandpa. May his soul rest in peace
That so sad
Romans don't take kindly to barbarians in their city and give them the traditional Roman welcome.
Pfft u act like Italy fought the germans....very few shot took arms most were fascist
@@charlesuplifted5216 We still had 35,000 partisan deaths, that's not a negligible number.
@@charlesuplifted5216 u sound like US airstrikes cleared omaha beach
@@RaySuke77 You sound like the U.S. did nothing and didn't Almost single handedly complete the Pacific Island shopping Campaign while at the same time sending millions of Troops to Europe and Africa and supplying GB and The Soviet Union with Vehicles and Ammo for 2 years.
@@disillusionedrightest7313 u sound offended on a personal level. love it
Guy: *sticks tongue out
Granny: *stares then slowly blends in back to oblivion
Looks like italian underground kills more soldiers than regular italian army xD
Yes, the French underground too, because it's impossible to understand if it's one of them or a civilian, so they can prepare traps even in front of the enemy, so it's easier to have good effects from them
@@whitezombie10 underground is for ladys
Italian army was strong. Stop with ur kid myths
you know it's easier when you're fighting for your homeland than for incompetent cowardly fascist commanders
@@myhonorwasloyalty Agreed. They were just badly led by El Duce's cronies.
2:44 Dude at the end and on the left cycles the bolt on his rifle twice without firing a shot.
I think i can hear the click of him pulling the trigger, not sure though. Well spotted haha.
Perhaps he was firing blanks (sorry couldn't resist)
Could chalk that up to rattled nerves. But that's most likely actor error. lol
He was in shocc
Cuz he’s an actor and not used to guns I’m guessing
This scene belongs to film "Rappresaglia"(1973) starring Marcello Mastroianni and Richard Burton
They still won't have fixed the road.
lol, but they do have an on going inquiry into the hole and the water spillage.
they made a road to stand forever 😂🤣😂
spud pud Hopefully ( for you ) you’re not american!!!.... Because if you are, and the reason why I’m wondering is simply that ONLY Americans criticizes other countries..., remember that is better to have ancient roads that the Social problems that you have!!! Ohps, Sorry, I forgot that you’re the greatest😂
@@paponeable Hey Papostronzo, I am American of Italian origin and you are a Stupid Idiot for making that comment! PS: Your English is Horrible!
@@guypalumbo7892 i'm an american and paponeable is right, the US is embarrassing itself on a near daily basis, and our chronic social problems are a big reason why. also, and you should know this as an american of italian origin, there are in fact other countries on this planet where people are under no obligation to learn or speak english.
HOW TO AVOID BEING THE TARGET OF A RESISTANCE ATTACK:
Lesson 1: Do not go into other people's countries bearing arms. If, for any reason, you do find yourself in other peoples' country bearing arms, leave as soon as possible, preferably immediately.
Isn't this in Italy? You know, that country that was on Germany's side and started invading countries before Hitler did... Then called Germany on two separate fronts to bail them out only to change sides to being their enemy when the going got tough???
No wonder Germany "occupied" it.
@@fishyc150 True, and the same holds true for example for an Italian Blackshirt patrol ambushed in Yugoslavia.
@@Stripedbottom
Or allied forces killed by ied in Iraq etc. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter...
@@fishyc150 Exactly.
@Frankly Frank
That version is however at odds with both facts and history. But I applaud your attempt.
Britain and the Commonwealth stopped Hitler at sea. Stopped them in the air and stopped them on land (el alamein) before a single American joined in. Maybe we couldn't have re invaded Europe alone but he couldn't beat us either.
Russia would have lost Kursk and possibly the war if it wasn't for the "Hungarian spy" that turned out to be enigma intercept at bletchly park giving the Soviets all the German battle plans. Britain also provided a quarter of all the tanks and planes that stopped Hitler at Moscow.
Britain was the only one of the nation's you stated that took the fight to Hitler. Both the others waited until the war came to them. Remember, even new Zealand was fighting Hitler before big brave America or Russia who was actually on the same side as Hitler initially.
If you call that "waiting for the cavalry" then you've got issues.
If someone's new around here this is the historical context:
In March 1944 an Italian partisan named Rosario Bentivegna, pretending to be a street sweeper, set up a bomb in Via Rasella that killed 30 soldiers of SS Police Regiment "Bozen" (it was not an important unit nor an Elite one, most of them were recruits and middle aged men).
After the attack SS troops took reprisals against Italian civilians, executing 335 (10 for each German killed) in Fosse Ardeatine (an old mine in the outskirts of Rome). During that terrible event a priest tried to save civilians and offered his own life in exchange, the SS beaten him and still killed everyone.
None of the buildings in Via Rasella has been restored, bullet and shrapnel holes are still visible. There are no restaurants nor colorful decorations there.
Thank you for the backstory.
IT was not recruits and old men, good job on the revision lol.
From the consequence of this bombing act, I would say that the Italian partisan Rosario Bentivegna was the enemy of his own people. He did this cowardly act despite knowing that there will be reprisal attacks on his civilians. This is surely one way to bring harm to a neighborhood by provoking occupational forces anywhere: 🇮🇶, 🇦🇫 etc
@@samgauss7743 it was NOT that obvious that there would be a reprsial.
I mean, in this event yes, but it was not that common that germans killed people just because (atleast in Rome, the capitol that caused more problems to germans), yes they killed people, but there was NO manifesto saying "every german soldier killed, we kill 10 people", no.
Everybody knew germand killed people, but it was not public.
@@samgauss7743 also, the people that were killed were not civilians (i mean, they were, but they were imprisoned because of the race laws, so they were prisoners), and werent even considered good people by nazi and fas governments...
In fact all the people that were killed were jews or communists, that we know were not seen good by Nazis, and they even said "no innocents were killed"...
This attack caused the germans not to send theyr soldiers in reserve, because they were most likely killed if they went in reserve to Rome... even one allied officer (i don't remember now who it was) said that this attack really helped the moral of the troops, because they knew that the city they were about to free was with them, and would help fighting germans...
Nothing uncommon with this cart sitting right here where we going to march right by.
When you walk with your boys away from hugo boss shop and then being attacked!
it wasn't a patrol, the SS police marched through at the same time daily as a show of strength to the Romans. the arrogance of the Germans never conceived the resistance would dare attack them.
G.A.P. gruppi di azione patriottica , urban guerrilla
They werent SS, they were reservists
@@umberto7773 Still N@zi occupiers.
This attack (the via Rasella bombing in Rome) brought a very hard reprisal from the German Army occupying Rome: the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine.
The underground made the mistake of not going through and finishing them all off before they could gather themselves.
They aren't the brightest
The film doesn't show everything...
You cannot expect a squad compose by like 10 partisans (because yes, when they tell you there are secret partisans in Rome you expect big things... they were really few) to eliminate an entire squad of more than 150 germans, in fact:
After the bomb exploded, the partisand threw grenade (that were not even grenade, they were mortar shells modified to he thrown) to the line, then started shooting, but unfortunately, they did not have brilliant and polished guns, they were most likely really old guns (in fact they got guns from the high commands of the monarchy army, that were not all that fascists and collaborated with partisans, giving them rusty guns), and guns got jammed... immediatly after, an italian police man, hearing all this shooting, went looking with his pistol in hand, and unfortunately he got shot by the germans, still confused by the bombs...
That night Hitler got really angry, in fact (i don't remember who, but like a really close person) wrote in his book that "he has seen Hitler out of him, full of anger, in two occasions: when they didn't destroyed Paris when allies were invading France, and when he heard about Via Rasella"", so Hitler wanted 50 italians ( obviously not innocent, for nazi and fas government, so jews and communists) to be killed, but the high commands said that this would cause a rebellion in Rome, so in the night they convinced him to kill """"just"""" 10 person per killed german... and so the day later the massacre of Fosse Ardeatine took place...
Hope it's all clear, I'm italian, and i wrote like in english with italian grammar, I'm sorry😅
The main tragedy of Partisans killing of German soldiers was the severe and extreme reprisals carried out by the Germans, in some cases the Germans killed entire villages or towns as reprisals.
That's why it was done
well young 18 year old fritz was also a human with a family. killed by the people they helped in greece and africa.....
The reprisals were also, arguably, legal under international law of the time. Something the UN moved quickly to change after 1945.
@@VBZ180 I hope that was sarcasm.
I mean of course they would do that the nazis are evil incarnate.
Not just Germans but they were SS...
I thought the Germans were taking a risk, marching so close together.
May be they were not expecting an attack.
But still
@Heinrich Kreuzkümmel I found the smelly werhaboo
@@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 He is right though, this didn't accomplish anything and only led to the massacre of innocent people, and these kind of situations happend all over the place.
Such bravery when it's not your life on the line.
Partisans that sabotaged infrastructure, spied and generally hindered the strategic capacity of the Germans should be deemed of merit, committing random murders that will lead to further murders of your own people is just cowardice and criminal
@@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 he's speaking facts, you can't deny it, it's better to left them alone rather than getting more innocent people killed because of your action
@@cazulon1122 in verità dopo questa azione i Tedeschi non riuscirono più a contenere l'ordine pubblico a Roma
Quello che molti non sanno è che quella era una pattuglia di sudtirolesi, cioè italiani di lingua tedesca...quindi non veri tedeschi , e perciò sacrificabili
The guy at the end racked his gun twice lol
Definite rookie!
griffmeister sr. Thanks for that. Any comments about the helmet decals or collar tabs? No? Then just enjoy the clip .Wanker.
@@just_meuploading1902 it's rather authoritarian of you to *instruct* me to enjoy something.
I think thats because he fired it
@@just_meuploading1902 Lol why are you so salty? Chill out bro lmaoooo.... Youre tweakin
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Should’ve cane around the corner with smg’s when they were all laying down. Could’ve mowed em down
Indeed
That's what I was thinking; you don't just waste an opportunity to maximize damage like that.
Did anybody else notice? At 0:53, the guy was wearing a different watch from the one at 0:21!!!
The latter watch has a seconds clock. Good catch!
Some would say this is all fake, and those involved are only actors!
2.46. This guy reloads twice!
Must be a rookie haha.
@@Allen_P1 lol
@@allananderson1906 is it possible to reaload twice ? maybe you just extract the first cartridge intact and put another
@@claudiov5554 Waste of ammo!
@@allananderson1906 yes but it happens sometimes when you are nervouos ,well it´s just a movie :)
Caesar's body was spinning in his grave when he saw barbarians marching through Rome
Barbarians landed in Sicily , Salerno and Normandy led by their chieftains in London and Washington, Caesar and true romans were trenched from Naples untill Berlin
Now we know why soldiers say that " War is Hell". That is what my dad said and his brother. Both were in WW2. My dad was in the Battle of The Buldge. He died on Nov.26th,2011. He was 95.
Your dad is an American hero, would have loved to have known him. Maybe he is talking to my dad up there, he was a LRRP in Vietnam and passed 10/17/18...May they both rest easy, their missions complete.
Originally the words of U.S. Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman
@@orvillebrown7235 I did not know that. Thanks for the information. My dad was told that by a WW1 soldier. That WW1 soldier was also in WW2. He was a POW in WW2.
This was the best part of the movie, "Back to the Future"
If you have such "allies"...you won't need an enemy.
at that time we weren't allied, and Rome was a city militarly occupied
@@et_m4204 Yeah, because you pussed out
@@RazorsharpLT 🤡
@@alessiog876 Is that a represantation of Italy when they invaded Greece and needed to be bailed by Germany afterwards?
Nice, they helped you in any way they could in your wars in Libya and Greece, and you repayed them by a stab in the back. And no BS about "evil dictator man" - Hungary fought on until the end with Germany. Broes stay together, they don't betray one another.
@@RazorsharpLT 😂🤡
The Italians well whose side are we on this week then lads
On theirs
Only the Fascist supporters of Mussolini supported and fought for the Nazi's. The Italian Partisans led by the Communist never fought for the Nazi's and had been fighting the Nazi's since Mussolini had come to power...but I guess you already knew that right?
It’s all clear looking backwards.
Before the war, a lot of western leaders liked Hitler, including Americans.
Like Hitler, the CCP, also uses deception.
those are communist partisans who were always against Mussolini's fascists' and Nazis when they came too, they were the ones who executed Mussolini.. the CIA rigged the Italian election after the war or else the communists would have ruled Italy after the war with all their war heroics against fascist and nazis
Like Moseley' s supporters, whos' side were they on
I love the fact he told the granny to go inside.... The Germans were later shooting at the windows after the attack, there must have been many people looking out of the balcony after the blast too
Shooting at nothing!🤔
Jman👀
What is the signifigance of the ball rolling among the soldiers feet?
In a sequence not included in this clip there's a kid playing with the ball who leaves as the German arrive.
@@ruggerotaradel6379 Tnx,that clears things up. 😀
A famous Italian professor during a public lesson told this particular (gathered from the stories given by the group of partisans that acted out this attack): there was a group of kids playing with a ball around there: the first to ask them to leave was Carla, the girlfriend of Rosario (the guy who fired the bomb) but they did not listen. After her another partisan decided to act more efficiently and kicked the ball far far away from the street. The kids angry called him "son of a b*tch" and followed the ball, so they survived.
That's how Bella Ciao was born
I Partigiani cantavano "Fischia il Vento"; "Bella Ciao", nata come canzone contadina, è stata modificata e adottata dopo la guerra.
THIS IS THE POWER OF PARTISANS
Gotta respect the dog's training, his barking is like marching drums
Bravo to over ONE MILLION brave Italians who fought against the hated socialists from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during WW2! Italians are very heroic people!
-- With love from Việt-Nam
I am pretty sure you are not even in Vietnam lol. Vietnamese American I assume from your profile
@@thitran1362 Tao là 150% người Việt-Nam!
@@luongo7886 nhưng mi ko ở VN đúng ko? Nên nói "with love from a Vietnamese" lol
@@thitran1362 Thì sao?
@@luongo7886 chỉ nói thế thôi lol.
Germans: AY AY AY AY AY AY AY AY AY AY
*explodes*
Germans: You shouldnt do that
They say "Eins Zwei Drei, Eins Zwei, Eins Zwei Drei" (1 2 3, 1 2, 1 2 3)
Most partisans were Communist and the majority of Italians did not like the partisans. They would hide in the mountains and come down and attack the Germans then run back into the mountains. The Germans would retaliate unfortunately on the innocent people while the partisans hide in the mountains like cowards and watched as the Germans told the partisans to come down and face the consequences. The partisans did not care that their actions caused innocent people to be harmed. The vast majority of Italians did not like partisans for this reason and for the fact they were Communist.
Most of the Italians were at first for Mussolini and Hitler, and then against. It is typical European cynicism to be on the winning side!
I agree. My dad was a second world war solider and he told us the same thing as what you just related! The partisans were cowards and also wanted to lute the Germans.
@@dimseza1541 the partisans were cowards mate!
@@ronbonora7872 By being the only ones who dared to resist N@zi occupation instead of collaborating with the Salo Republic. I think the cowardly could be projection on your ancestor's part.
That was beautiful.
Not the formation to have for a meeting engagement
Everybody’s always either alive or dead. There’s never any wounded squirming on the ground.
LTrain 45 unless you ask Schrodinger
Or tattered uniforms or signs of injury
They weren't "Germans", they were Tyroleans from South Tyrol. South Tyrol was 'annexed' from Austria by Italy just after WW1. So they were "Italians". There was 'bad blood' between Tyroleans and Italians.
I remember seeing something about the Southern Tyrol forces in an Osprey book on Resistance warfare. If I understood what I read they were more of a police or security unit recruited by the Germans. Ironically it wasn't unusual for the Germans to recruit foreigners, some of whom weren't exactly "Ayran" in terms of racial profiling, but they were often deployed to the Waffen SS. I'm not sure if the unit in question was SS.
It seems strange to me that the Germans avenged people that were not their race, I didn't know they did that, too. In Greece, they showed real menace to Italians after they left them and many Greeks saved Italians, even though they were their enemy before. Italians were not as cruel and as barbarians as Nazi Germans and Greeks liked them and felt sorry for them in the end.
Why is there a shot of a white ball rolling between their feet at around 1:25…? It is very random and only a fleeting few frames.
needed more follow up action...too many got up!
Such good marching!
Did anyone notice towards the end that the bottom left German soldier cocked his gun twice without firing it once?
Amazing tactics
Oh it's sad how half of the soldier's died, but how they march was so brilliant.
Yeah
German discipline!
They were fucking nazis dude
IED in ww2
From the moovie "Massacre in Rome".
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Moral of the story: never let alive survivors who can take revenge.
Good job
German efficiency, always on time.
Actually in the movie they are half an hour late. This causes a lot of problems for the resistance.
The sound they make while marching is absoluty hilarious
People still have nightmares after listening to this terrifying march outside their doors, especially at night when all lights had to be put out and the Germans could barge in any home without warning and kill innocent civilians for nothing. As a child after listening to stories of survivors of this war and the famine that followed in my country, I watched this in films and their presence still upsets me and scares me as an adult. There is nothing hilarious about it.
@@joannaheart8167 im such a bad boy
И тут Ганс подумал, что красиво маршировать ему больше не хочется)))
Wylie coyote could learn a thing or two from the street sweeper.
Wish I knew what film this is.
Dream Gary lol
映像の緊張感が凄い
Also 0:59 was some pretty cool camerawork
Its very convenient when the occupying force marches in packed parade order, loudly clicking their heels and calling time and paying no heed to the hostile territory around them. That makes for such a realistic movie.
Actually, it happened just like that. The video shows the "Via Rasella" attack, in 44. The attack, carried on by the Italian Resistance, was against the 11th company of the polizeiregiment "botzen" just after the company shooting range session. As the attackers, the survivors, and the witnesses tell, the company marched chanting every day on the same road. In that period, Rome was a Hell for the Germans, with almost 1 resistance attack every 2 days, and the soldiers were marching with their weapons safe off, ready to fire. In fact, the civil victims of the attack were killed by the soldiers, who fired against the houses and palaces windows believing that the attack came from there, while it actually came from the road.
It was the bloodiest attack against the axis occupation throughout all the war, with 33 death. Hitler himself is said to have looked so angry only that time and when Heydrich died. He demanded 50 Italians killed for every Germans, but Kesselring, the leader of the German force in Italy, convinced him that if they did so the city would have revolted so bad that they wouldn't be able to retake it. So they decided to kill 10 italians for every German. They killed 335 Italians the next day, the event is known as the slaughter of Fosse Ardeatine, perpetrated by the SS officer Kappler.
@@sono_un_feik_1080 - Very interesting Martino. The visuals were embellished perhaps, but your history is appreciated.
@@sono_un_feik_1080 i dont think hitler would have even gotten notice when 33 people die. Sorry but in this war a few thousand died every day. 33 german soldiers were lost in the eastern front within 20 minutes probably, 24/7
@@uhuhuhx4806 the point obviously wasn't just the fact that 33 soldiers died, but the fact that 33 soldiers died in a terrorist (partisan) attack in an occupied Capital that was really close to a vital front.
It's the single most deadly partisan attack in an occupied city in all ww2. The attack enormously boosted Italian Partisan's and Allied troops morale, and destroyed the German's. Rome should have been a relaxing place for soldiers to rest between the weeks at the front, but instead became a carnage for German soldiers (more than 1 killed a Day). It's not only a matter of numbers, but a matter of morale and fighting capability of troops. General Alexander (USA) himself said that the Partisan activity in Rome was vital for the Allies, because US soldiers knew that the enemies weren't safe anywhere and that their morale was low.
Seen it before but can’t remember name of the movie.
The Germans didn’t like the Italians from the beginning. The Germans looked at them as less than usual. The Germans were always putting the Italians in doing the most dangerous fighting and given no credit. The Germans were taking all of the credit. CWA
Отличневский! посмотреть бы полностью....
This is about as believable as a movie about the French winning a war.
agreed
+Batoni Daboni Italian underground was only a real threat in the final two months of the war. It's also true that the German army shot some Italian people, but in some cases these executions were legal under the Geneva Convention. Still a terrible tragedy.
Yeah, the last Frenchman with balls was Napoleon. Oh wait, he was a Corsican.,..
+Batoni Daboni fuck off
Funny that you'd say so, because this is actually based on a real event and seems to be pretty faithful to it too. A large IED was hidden in a rubbish cart, 28 SS were killed immediately with many wounded, ambushing partisans also fired on the column, final death toll 42, no partisan casualties.
Now I know where George Lucas got his inspiration from.
In reality the “germans” weren’t SS as pictured here, but a military police force composed by northern Italians of German language from Alto Adige/Sudtirol, compulsory drafted into the German Army after Italian armistice; only the officers were from Germany. But this is what war does: you ignore the men under the uniform and you just fight it.
This is the first IED bomb .
Just like the french, when the germans were there everybody was a collaborator, after the war supposedly everyone was in the underground
When military tactics meets people who want to survive
Excellent video
From the 1973 movie Massacre In Rome starring Richard Burton
I love the Germans marching xD the march sounds soooo frightening
I loved how they died
it was copyed by italian march
The marches and military traditions the Germans used during WW2 were taken from Prussian tradition
Footsteps used to be so loud
@@MrThePsychologistno?
At 0:58 I thought It was an explosion
why they didnt finish those on the ground after the blast?
I may have read about this. The device killed around 28 German soldiers. There were horrible reprisals afterwards.
Who did this... whom broke ze wasa main!?
That german komeraden cant die like that.Partisans is illegal in war rules .Partisans distrub wars
t. kid
Partisans tend to disturb mass genocide and bombarding of hospitals
Partisans were only fighting to defend their country and familly from german nazi psychopatchs
@@bakers2366 : Partisans ARE CRIMINALS OF WAR!!! and make several atrocitys simulating patriot reasons...DON`T FORGET IT!!!
Had the bomb detonated a little sooner the whole platoon might have been knocked out.
If you search on google maps via Rasella, Rome, you can see all the bullet holes inside buildings fired by Germans moments after the attack. They are still there. P.S. I live Rome
Now Imagine if everyone had guns in Italy
well i'm sure all of europe was full of guns during ww2
Then that means the fascists would have guns and would have taken power earlier. Guns don't solve shit.
Their kids would be shot in their schools, kids would shot in their homes, dancers would be shot in dance halls, church goers shot in their churches.
@@KuroNekoExMachina They already had access to all the weaponry they could ever need. You forget the years of lead?
@@KuroNekoExMachina no they were not lol, Of course they didn't have an armada at their disposal. But they had just enough to terrorize people
@OdinofWei
Rappresaglia (Massacre in Rome)
You still there?
What is the movie's title?
2:44 Soldier at the end and on the left cycles the bolt on his rifle twice without firing a shot.
It's not uncommon during battle to become confused and disoriented, during the muzzle loader era a high number of rifles recovered after engagements were found to be double charged and not even fired (thankfully), assumes the rifleman was dazed and confused and simply overloaded during a panic situation.
gotta love that perfect marching
War is only good for the Undertaker !!$$$$$😞😷
Germans never seen so helpless than in this scene.
Stalingrad means anything to you ? .
Welcome in ITALY!!!!!!
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ich hatte 'mal einen "Italienischen Kompass “ , der hat immer nur "nach Hinten“ gezeigt.!
halt die fresse
Ich hatte mal Deutsche Freunde, die wurden größenwahnsinnig und schluckten am Ende wie Feiglinge Giftkapseln und der Rest leugnete alles.... Also meine Deutsche Freunde wurden Feiglinge oder Verlierer inklusive Vaterlands-Verräter, such es dir aus von wem du stammst ... Dein Verlierer.
Ich hatte deutsche Freunde die schossen mir in den Rücken.
wie die italiener rumheulen hahahaha
At first I thought they were Cybermen.
Lol wrong war .....silly billy
Lol....wrong war silly billy...
Why are humans so fascinated with violence?
Because humans are naturally violent animals
what is amaizing is how many soldiers survived the bomb stood up to fight
which movie is it?
Italian war heroes at WW2. Very short film.
@@jak9338 Shut the fuck up!
El Alamein, Raid of Alessandria, battle of Izbushesky and Battle of Nikolajewka!
Before writing stupid things in comments, study! Ignorant
1:42 R.I.P Hans blew up from some dudes
That's a very big patrol
Alguien me puede decir el nombre de la película pls 😭🙏🏿🥺
"Rappresaglia"1973 con Marcello Mastroianni e Richard Burton
@@screenfixer1936 gracias hermano
Lo más triste que verán hoy 😢 Dios lo tenga en su gloria
Gay
Hey, from what movie this clip?
I think the germans forgot to use their L2 button
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