https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Local officials evacuated 54,000 people from the southern Italian city of Brindisi on Sunday as experts worked on a World War II bomb, the largest operation of its kind in the country, media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20191216/more-than-50000-evacuated-in-southern-italy-because-of-wwii-bomb Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:10:20 +0100 more-than-50000-evacuated-in-southern-italy-because-of-wwii-bomb When Italy surrendered to the Allies 75 years ago last month, thousands of prisoners of war in Italian camps found themselves faced with a choice: to stay put and hope to be liberated, or to escape and embark on an uncertain journey to safe territory. Katrina Kittel’s father chose the latter, and now the Australian historian has made it her mission to discover what happened to others who took the same leap. https://www.thelocal.it/20181025/how-italians-helped-allied-prisoners-of-war-escape-italy-world-war-two Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:48:56 +0200 how-italians-helped-allied-prisoners-of-war-escape-italy-world-war-two As Italy commemorates the 75th anniversary of its wartime surrender, signed on September 3rd 1943 and made public five days later, researcher Anne Saunders tells the stories behind some of the most evocative World War II sites you can visit today. https://www.thelocal.it/20180903/six-world-war-ii-sites-to-visit-in-italy Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:00:26 +0200 six-world-war-ii-sites-to-visit-in-italy Most people are acquainted with at least the basic facts about the French Resistance. There are copious popular books, plays and films, and of course, the much-loved BBC comedy ‘Allo 'Allo. But few are quite so well versed on another resistance movement that played out in Europe towards the end of World War II. https://www.thelocal.it/20170425/forgotten-resistance-the-italian-freedom-fighters-dropped-from-our-history-books Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:33:18 +0200 forgotten-resistance-the-italian-freedom-fighters-dropped-from-our-history-books Volunteers on Wednesday uncovered the presumed remains of two British soldiers from the Second World War in the hills of Salerno, south-western Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20170302/remains-of-two-british-soldiers-found-in-southern-italy Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:28:27 +0100 remains-of-two-british-soldiers-found-in-southern-italy An Italian police chief long celebrated for saving 5,000 Jews during World War II may have in fact been a Nazi collaborator, according to a New York-based institute that studies Italian Jewry. https://www.thelocal.it/20130621/italian-holocaust-hero-exposed-as-nazi-collaborator Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200 italian-holocaust-hero-exposed-as-nazi-collaborator A Saturday afternoon almost ended in tragedy for a group of children playing in a backyard in Velletri in the province of Rome, when a dog dug up a World War II hand grenade. https://www.thelocal.it/20150623/dog-digs-up-world-war-ii-hand-grenade Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:02:52 +0200 dog-digs-up-world-war-ii-hand-grenade Italy has launched a enquiry into the massacre of 642 people in a French town during World War II, in which an Italian and her seven children died, media reported Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140115/italy-opens-probe-into-wwii-french-massacre Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:09:00 +0100 italy-opens-probe-into-wwii-french-massacre Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke will be buried in a secret location in Italy, his lawyer said on Saturday, following a long legal dispute after the former SS officer's death in Rome last week. https://www.thelocal.it/20131020/nazi-war-criminal-gets-secret-italian-funeral Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:22:00 +0200 nazi-war-criminal-gets-secret-italian-funeral