MASSACRE IN ROME

MASSACRE IN ROME

George P. Cosmatos

MASSACRE IN ROME depicts one of the worst atrocities of the World War II which took place in Nazi occupied Rome after Italian Partisans killed 33 German soldiers by exploding a roadside bomb. Hitler retaliated by ordering the immediate execution of 10 Roman citizens for each dead soldier.

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MASSACRE IN ROME depicts one of the worst atrocities of the World War II which took place in Nazi occupied Rome sparking a searing political outrage: did the Vatican, then led by Pope Pius XII kowtow to Nazism? After Italian Partisans killed 33 German soldiers by exploding a roadside bomb, Hitler ordered the immediate execution of 10 Roman citizens for each dead soldier.

When the Vatican withdrew from the matter, a deadly confrontation ensued between a priest, (Marcello Mastroianni) and a Nazi Officer Kappler (Richard Burton at his best) who had been ordered to administer what would become one of the most heinous war crimes: the massacre of 335 civilians.  

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