Burning Caligula ships: Nemi, 'Germany pay Nazi damage'

(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 27 - The retreating Nazis burned caligula's calves and now the municipality of Nemi is asking for damages to Germany. The city council of the Lazio town voted on a resolution on the proposal of the first citizen, Alberto Bertucc, to ask Germany for damages for the destruction "of the two famous Roman ships of the Emperor Caligula". The two ships, found in the last century between 1928 and 1932, were 'intentionally and intentionally burned on the night of May 31, 1944 by the 163rd German Motorized Antiaircraft Group that occupied the area and was in retreat'. So "that irreparable damage to an archaeological asset was not the result of an unpredictable war action but -explains the mayor Bertucci- a conscious gesture of scarring. For this we ask for compensation". (HANDLE).