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James Stagg was a Scottish meteorologist whose weather forecasts helped determine the timing of Operation Overlord and t...
#Biografia
Joseph Storck was a French teacher and headteacher in Limoges who protected Jewish pupils and student members of the Res...
Germaine Ribière, a prominent Resistance member from Limoges, contributed to protecting and saving Jews, particularly ch...
Georges Guingouin was a major figure in the French Resistance; he organized and commanded maquis forces in the Limousin ...
Gaston Lévy was a French Jewish doctor and Resistance member who played a key role in organizing humanitarian aid and su...
August Meier was a German Nazi officer. As a member of the SS (Schutzstaffel), he commanded Einsatzkommando units in Eas...
Eugene Bullard was an American-born veteran who served France in both world wars and returned to combat in 1940 during t...
Dopo un anno di occupazione tedesca, Pistoia fu liberata l'8 settembre 1944. Ciò avvenne a seguito di un'importante oper...
#Storia
Don Libero Raglianti fu un sacerdote e partigiano toscano, attivo nella Resistenza in Versilia, dove si distinse per l’a...
Il “Capitano Toni” è stato un insegnante poi un comandante partigiano tra Veneto ed Emiliia. In entrambi i ruoli è stat...
Mario Nanni è stato un partigiano sulla montagna bolognese. Nel dopoguerra è diventato un artista prestigioso. Alla fine...
Gino Costantini, ferroviere di Vergato, fu un valoroso comandante nella Valle del Reno, dove combatté a fianco dei parti...
Don Luigi Tommasini, parroco di Burzanella, è stato oppositore del fascismo, cappellano dei lavoratori italiani in Germa...
Jean Moulin was a French prefect and Resistance leader who worked to unite the main Resistance movements under the autho...
Peter Gingold was a German Jewish communist and anti-Nazi resistance member who was active in exile in France and fought...
Ben Ferencz was a Nuremberg prosecutor and one of the last surviving figures of the postwar trials, who dedicated his li...
Frank Meier was an Austrian-born barman who became a central figure at the Ritz in Paris, navigating the complex realiti...
Jean Luchaire was a French journalist and collaborationist figure during World War II, known for his early pro-Nazi stan...
Maresca fu uno dei paesi più devastati dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale dell’intera provincia di Pistoia. La guerra totale ...
Sambuca Pistoiese nel corso della Seconda Guerra Mondiale fu colpita da rastrellamenti, deportazioni, stragi e attività ...
Leone Ginzburg, an anti-fascist intellectual and proponent of the Italian political idea of liberal socialism, was kille...
This well-known Polish soldier was born in 1892 in Galicia under Austrian rule. He quickly became the main provider for ...
Ferruccio Parri, a liberal anti-fascist, helped lead Italy’s Resistance, survived imprisonment, and became the first pos...
Lucie Bernard, known as Lucie Aubrac, was an important French communist partisan who fought against Nazi Germany and th...
