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 A 96-year-old retired American soldier has managed to make contact with three children he almost killed during the liberation of Italy, 76 years after they posed for a photo with him. https://www.thelocal.it/20201215/us-soldier-traces-the-italian-children-he-almost-shot-during-second-world-war Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:00:17 +0100 us-soldier-traces-the-italian-children-he-almost-shot-during-second-world-war A national museum is to be built in Milan dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement during the second world war, Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini has announced. https://www.thelocal.it/20191210/italy-announces-175m-new-resistance-museum-for-milan Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:03:46 +0100 italy-announces-175m-new-resistance-museum-for-milan A candlelit procession will mark the 76th anniversary of the raid on the Jewish ghetto in Rome, in which more than 1,000 people were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. https://www.thelocal.it/20181016/italy-marks-75-years-since-the-nazi-raid-on-the-rome-ghetto Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:47:33 +0200 italy-marks-75-years-since-the-nazi-raid-on-the-rome-ghetto In the night between June 4th and 5th 1944, Allied soldiers arrived in Rome and the city became the first Axis capital to be liberated from the Nazis. One of those to greet them was an American writer and undercover agent who had spent months working with the Italian resistance to pave the way for Rome's liberation. https://www.thelocal.it/20190605/how-an-american-spy-helped-liberate-rome-75-years-ago Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:59:23 +0200 how-an-american-spy-helped-liberate-rome-75-years-ago Pope Francis announced on Monday that the Vatican will open the secret archives of the wartime pontiff Pius XII in March next year, which could shed light on why the Catholic Church failed to intervene more against the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.it/20190304/vatican-to-open-archives-of-pius-xii-ww2-pope-accused-of-complicity-in-the-holocaust Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:08:23 +0100 vatican-to-open-archives-of-pius-xii-ww2-pope-accused-of-complicity-in-the-holocaust Slovenia's PM accused Italy and the EU parliament chief of WWII 'revisionism' after comments made at a memorial ceremony for Italian victims of World War II massacres. https://www.thelocal.it/20190212/slovenia-accused-italy-of-ww2-revisionism Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:47:42 +0100 slovenia-accused-italy-of-ww2-revisionism Passengers have been evacuated and flights diverted after three unexploded bombs were found during construction work at the airport today. https://www.thelocal.it/20190207/romes-ciampino-airport-closed-after-three-ww2-bombs-found Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:42:29 +0100 romes-ciampino-airport-closed-after-three-ww2-bombs-found Roger Waters, the founder of the British rock bank Pink Floyd, has unveiled a monument to his father, who was killed in Italy during the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.it/20140219/pink-floyd-star-pays-tribute-to-father-who-died-in-italy Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:10:00 +0100 pink-floyd-star-pays-tribute-to-father-who-died-in-italy The memorial service for Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke will be held in Italy, his lawyer told AFP Saturday after Argentina, where the former SS officer wished to be buried, refused to accept his body. https://www.thelocal.it/20131012/nazi-war-criminal-gets-italian-memorial Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:07:00 +0200 nazi-war-criminal-gets-italian-memorial Ahead of the 100th birthday of one of the last Nazi criminals alive, calls have grown in Italy for him to finally apologize for his role in the massacre of more than 300 people in caves outside Rome at the end of the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.it/20130723/nazis-100th-birthday-sparks-resentment-in-rome Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:14:00 +0200 nazis-100th-birthday-sparks-resentment-in-rome Four allied airmen who lost their lives in Italy during World War Two will be buried at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Padua on July 18th. https://www.thelocal.it/20130628/allied-airmen-to-be-buried-in-padua Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:09:00 +0200 allied-airmen-to-be-buried-in-padua