Warsaw Italian Military Cemetery

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Warsaw Italian Military Cemetery

Warsaw Italian Military Cemetery ( Italian Cimitero militare italiano a Varsavia ) is located in the Bielany district at 40 Marymoncka Street opposite the Wrzeciono settlement. It was built in 1926 and inaugurated in 1930. At that time it was outside the city area, today it is on the edge of a densely built-up district.

898 Italian soldiers - victims of both world wars - were buried on an area of ​​0.8 ha. There were fallen and prisoners of war of the First and Second World War as well as victims of the concentration camps.

The cemetery was designed by the Technical Bureau of the Chief Commissioner for Military Cemeteries in Rome and built at the expense of the Italian state. The tombstones and elements of the fencing were delivered from Italy. The building project was built in the style of monumental buildings from the Mussolini era . The stone wall is adorned with laurel branches and panoplies - shields of the Roman legionaries .

In the middle of the cemetery there is a memorial plaque in honor of Italian generals - victims of the Waffen SS murder on January 28, 1945 in the village of Kuźnica Żelichowska ( Powiat Czarnkowsko-Trzcianecki , Greater Poland Voivodeship ) (then Selchowhammer). They were Carlo Spatocco, Giuseppe Andreoli, Emanuele Balbo Bertone di Breme, Ugo Ferrero, Alberto Trionfi and Alessandro Vaccaneo.

The cemetery was thoroughly renovated in 1970. The monumental sandstone gate was replaced by forged grating. The cemetery is administered by the Italian Embassy in Warsaw.

The military cemetery was built on a square plot of land. At the end of the main axis there is an altar with a cross and a plaque with the names of the places where the dead were originally buried. There are underground catacombs to the side .

Another Italian military cemetery is located in Wroclaw .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacek Wilczur: Śmiertelny sojusz Hitler - Mussolini (The fatal alliance). Cinderella, 2001, ISBN 83-86245-71-9 .
  2. ↑ L'eccidio dei be generalized a Zelichowo

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  • Altar and panel with the names of
    the fallen 1939–1945

  • Soldiers' graves 1914–1918

  • catacombs

  • Inauguration of the cemetery
    in June 1930

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 54.7 ″  N , 20 ° 56 ′ 36.2 ″  E