• The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by members of the United States Army during World War II. It refers to two incidents in which U.S. soldiers...
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    it was called Biscari, and its history dates back until the 14th century. During World War II it was the location of the Biscari Massacre, in which American...
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    the death penalty to life imprisonment". Nuremberg Trials Biscari Massacre Malmedy massacre Investigation — Report of the Subcommittee of Committee on...
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  • Everett and the Malmedy massacre. NYU Press. p. 118. ISBN 0-8147-9366-5. Weingartner, James J. (1989). "Massacre at Biscari: Patton and an American War...
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    troops push the two mule carcasses off the bridge. When informed of the Biscari massacre of prisoners, which was by troops under his command, Patton wrote in...
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    codes, they could face charges, as for example the Dachau massacre or the Biscari massacre trials. The unconditional surrender of the Axis powers was...
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    crimes by members of the division. In the first two cases, dubbed the Biscari massacre, occurred on 14 July 1943, American troops from C Company, 180th Infantry...
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    Everett and the Malmedy massacre, NYU Press, 2000, p. 118. ISBN 0-8147-9366-5 Weingartner, James J. (1989). "Massacre at Biscari: Patton and an American...
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  • The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Italy and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate): they are divided by the presence of...
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    happened during World War I and World War II; for example the second Biscari Massacre when 36 suspected snipers were lined up and shot on 14 July 1943. As...
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  • of Death, the massacres in Piaśnica, the Forest of Szpęgawsk massacre, the Rudzki Most massacre, the Palmiry massacre, and the massacres following the...
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    1943 during World War II, this was one of the sites of the Biscari massacre, the massacre of 73 Axis soldiers altogether. The current name was adopted...
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    Biscari airfield on 14 July 1943 American soldiers from the regiment murdered 74 Italian and two German prisoners of war in two massacres at Biscari airfield...
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    New Guinea ended in Allied victory. U.S. soldiers carried out the Biscari massacre, killing 73 unarmed German and Italian prisoners of war. The German...
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  • his role in the Khatyn massacre. Horace T. West (died 1974), American soldier convicted of premeditated murder committed at Biscari. Momčilo Đujić (1907–1999)...
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    killing of civilians (such as the Canicattì massacre), execution of prisoners (such as two massacres at Biscari airfield on 14 July 1943), and rape (most...
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    included capturing the port of Licata and the airfields of Ponte Olivo, Biscari and Comiso. It was then to prevent the enemy reserves from moving eastward...
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    Monastery in via Roma, constructed in 1596 to the order of the prince of Biscari and redesigned by the well-known Catanese architect Stefano Ittar. It contains...
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    confusing, given di Costanzo's 1694 letter. Ignazio Paternò, prince of Biscari, reports another story regarding their discovery. Paternò describes how...
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