Italy marks 80th anniversary of Ardeatine Caves massacre. On March 24, 1944, 335 Italians were executed by Nazi officers in a reprisal for a Partisan attack that killed 33 German soldiers in central Rome.
For every one German killed, the army seized 10Italians, including civilians as well as numerous politicalprisoners and Jews who were in custody. Both men and boys were executed and their bodies dumped in the caves where the memorial to the massacre is now located.