Muti to conduct Schuman's 'Ardeatine Caves' on March 24. 335 Italians were executed by Nazi officers in a reprisal for a partisan attack that killed 33 Germans soldiers in central Rome on a street near the Trevi Fountain.
For every one German killed, the army seized 10Italians including civilians as well as numerous politicalprisoners and Jews who were in custody, plus five more who were also executed. Both men and boys were executed and their bodies dumped in the caves where the memorial is now located.