Naples ’44

Place · Town

Ceccano

Ceccano
The original uploader was Robertodimo at Italian Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0

Background

Ceccano is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, central Italy, in the Latin Valley.

Grey dots: other places mentioned in the same entries. Click one to open it.
Further reading: Wikipedia ↗ · Search Google ↗

In Naples ’44

One of the southern-Lazio towns overrun by French colonial troops in May 1944; Lewis records that the British had to build a guarded camp there to protect Italian women from mass rape.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. May 28 1944
    A grim account of widespread, brutal mass sexual violence against civilians committed by French colonial troops advancing through nearby towns.

Use ← → to move between pages