EXECUTED IN ROME
Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, June 28. With their arms raised stiffly in the Fascist salute to the last moment, two members of the Italian Waffen S.S. were executed in Rome by an Italian firing squad for complicity in the killing of two Italian patriots, reports the Associated Press Rome correspondent. The accused mt>n were strapped to chairs with their backs to the firing squad. The 24-year-old wife of one of the men committed suicide from a window of her, flat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 152, 29 June 1945, Page 5
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