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TYPE: Broadside
DIMENSIONS: 19 1/2" x 27 1/2"
COMPONENTS: The announcement is bordered in the style of a memorial tablet, and bears the publishing line "S. Pietro Mussolino - 6 Maggio 1945".
CONDITION: The poster shows some pencil notations, specifically the label "burned" beside certain names, as well as folds with slight splitting, cello tape on the verso, and small interior pin holes, else very good.
ITEM ID: 4899
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Italian Broadside Honors Partisan Martyrs

DATE
Year: 1945
Decade: 1940s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)

Original World War II printed broadside in Italian honoring “Martyrs of Ruthless Ferocity”. The announcement continues: “They fell innocently in the reprisals of July and September 1944”, and lists sixteen victims of German executions, including one clergyman, and one individual described as “Fallen in Combat”.

ARTISTS
Name: S. Pietro Mussolino
Type: Publisher