WW2 Italian Fascist Police Chief Executed
WW2 Italian Fascist Police Chief Executed Pietro Caruso (10 November 1899 in Maddaloni – 22 September 1944 in Rome) was an Italian Fascist and head of the Rome police in 1944. After the liberation of Rome, Caruso was tried for his numerous crimes, sentenced to death on 21 September 1944 and executed by a firing squad of Polizia di Stato in the courtyard of the Fort Bravetta in Rome. Execution of Pietro Caruso - Italian chief of fascist police. Distressing images. Pietro Caruso was the co-organiser of the massacre in Fosse Ardeatine in 1944. This clip shows brief bits from his After the liberation of Rome, Caruso was tried for his numerous crimes, sentenced to death on 21 September 1944 and executed by a firing squad of Polizia di Stato in the courtyard of the Fort Bravetta in Rome. Born in Campania in 1899, he fought in the Bersaglieri in the final months of World War I and participated in Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of Fiume in 1920-1921. In 1921 he joined the ...