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 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 A new film is shining an uncomfortable light on the fate of thousands of Italians killed in massacres on the Yugoslav frontier at the end of the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.it/20181122/italian-film-red-land-rossa-istria-wwii-massacres Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:09:07 +0100 italian-film-red-land-rossa-istria-wwii-massacres 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 The final resting place of an American Second World War fighter pilot has been found by Italian amateur archaeologists near Bologna. https://www.thelocal.it/20160725/italian-amateur-team-finds-final-resting-place-of-us-wwii-pilot Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:41:06 +0200 italian-amateur-team-finds-final-resting-place-of-us-wwii-pilot People were stunned by the discovery of a body-filled, Second World War-era submarine off the coast of Sardinia earlier this week, not least Paul Denison, who told The Local his great-uncle was among the 71 who perished on board. https://www.thelocal.it/20160527/crew-who-sunk-with-wwii-sub-off-italy-wanted-to-be-found Fri, 27 May 2016 14:55:09 +0200 crew-who-sunk-with-wwii-sub-off-italy-wanted-to-be-found An operation to remove tonnes of Second World War-era explosives from the seabed off the coast of Liguria got underway on Monday, after an amateur diver discovered two sunken gunboats last month. https://www.thelocal.it/20160314/tonnes-of-wwii-era-explosives-removed-from-sea-under-busy-italian-port Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:49:39 +0100 tonnes-of-wwii-era-explosives-removed-from-sea-under-busy-italian-port The Italian government is reportedly ready to break a 70-year taboo by funding a controversial museum dedicated to fascism in Benito Mussolini's hometown of Predappio - a place of pilgrimage for modern-day fans of the wartime dictator. https://www.thelocal.it/20160216/italy-government-to-pay-2-million-for-fascist-museum-in-mussolini-hometown Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:45:48 +0100 italy-government-to-pay-2-million-for-fascist-museum-in-mussolini-hometown A short letter written by an Italian soldier interred by Nazi forces in a German prisoner of war camp has finally been delivered to his next of kin in Villorba, Venice. https://www.thelocal.it/20160209/italy-soldiers-letter-sent-during-wwii-delivered-after-72-years Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:53:35 +0100 italy-soldiers-letter-sent-during-wwii-delivered-after-72-years Italy was cut in two this morning as an unexploded WWII bomb was removed from a field in Umbria, stopping traffic on Italy's busy A1 motorway that joins Milan to Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples . https://www.thelocal.it/20151202/unexploded-wwii-bomb-causes-italy-travel-havoc Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:51:14 +0100 unexploded-wwii-bomb-causes-italy-travel-havoc A dog tag belonging to a US soldier, who died in Italy during the Second World War, has been returned to his relatives in America after an Italian family tracked them down. https://www.thelocal.it/20151116/italian-family-returns-found-dog-wwii-soldiers-family Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:11:02 +0100 italian-family-returns-found-dog-wwii-soldiers-family A 98-year-old woman has won a long legal battle and finally gained compensation from the Italian state after being raped by soldiers during World War II. https://www.thelocal.it/20150924/98-year-old-woman-compensated-for-wwii-rape Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:11:28 +0200 98-year-old-woman-compensated-for-wwii-rape A 92-year-old Italian woman and her daughter, who were separated at the end of the Second World War, have been reunited in Italy after 70 years apart. https://www.thelocal.it/20150810/mother-and-daughter-reunited-after-wwii Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:44:09 +0200 mother-and-daughter-reunited-after-wwii Britain's Prince Harry visited an Italian World War II battlefield on Sunday where tens of thousands of soldiers died 70 years ago and unveiled the design of Britain's pavilion for the Milan Expo. https://www.thelocal.it/20140519/prince-harry-visits-wwii-battle-site-in-italy Mon, 19 May 2014 10:08:00 +0200 prince-harry-visits-wwii-battle-site-in-italy