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Rock strewn opening of the Ardentine caves (Le Fosse Ardeatine) where Herbert Kappler, the SS colonel supervised the wartime massacre of approximately 355 Roman hostages in reprisal for an Italian partisan bombing in which 32 Nazi SS troops were killed.
Carl Mydans

Rock strewn opening of the Ardentine caves (Le Fosse Ardeatine) where Herbert Kappler, the SS colonel supervised the wartime massacre of approximately 355 Roman hostages in reprisal for an Italian partisan bombing in which 32 Nazi SS troops were killed.

Date 1944
Location Italy
Dimensions Image (Paper): 10 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. (27.6 x 27.3 cm)
Paper: 11 5/16 x 11 1/4 in. (28.7 x 28.6 cm)
Print medium Photo-Gelatin silver
Credit line

The LIFE Magazine Collection, 2005

Feedback Accession No. 1792.2005