The March of Time: Report on Italy

17min

From the ruins of Monte Cassino to the malarial swamps of the Pontine Marshes, this newsreel depicts the full extent of Italy’s devastation in early 1945. Reports on the Ardeatine massacre – a Nazi atrocity in which over 300 Italians were shot in reprisal for a Partisan attack on an SS regiment.

Storyline

From the ruins of Monte Cassino to the malarial swamps of the Pontine Marshes, this newsreel depicts the full extent of Italy’s devastation in early 1945. Reports on the Ardeatine massacre – a Nazi atrocity in which over 300 Italians were shot in reprisal for a Partisan attack on an SS regiment.

Runtime
17min
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Genre
Language
English
Production
Time Inc. Studios, 20th Century Fox
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