Trentino La Barba

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Trentino La Barba (* 1915 in Lanciano ; † October 5, 1943 ibid) was an Italian soldier and resistance fighter.

Life

La Barba came from a farming family. During the Second World War he served as a machine gunner with the 226th Infantry Regiment of the "Arezzo" division a. a. in Albania . After Italy had concluded an armistice with the Allies on September 8, 1943 , La Barba and his unit were captured by German troops in Molfetta near Bari . On the way to the German internment camp , La Barba was able to escape and return to his hometown of Lanciano in Abruzzo . There he joined the Italian resistance movement, the Resistenza , and organized with other partisans resistance groups called " Gran Sasso ". At the beginning of October 1943 he and some comrades raided the facilities of the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza , where they stole weapons with which La Barba's group attacked German troops on October 4th near Pozzo Bagnaro. After another attack on military columns, he was arrested and unsuccessfully tortured. In order to intimidate the population, he was brought to Lanciano, where he was tied to a tree in Viale dei Cappuccini and ultimately asked to testify about the resistance groups. After he refused, German soldiers cut his eyes out of his head with a dagger in front of the assembled residents and then shot him. On the evening of October 5, 1943, an uprising broke out in Lanciano in which 47 German soldiers and 10 residents were killed. Another 12 civilians were subsequently killed as a result of reprisals . By June 1944, Lanciano was completely destroyed by fighting by Allied and German troops. After the war, the city and Trentino La Barba received ( posthumously ) high awards.

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SURNAME La Barba, Trentino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soldier and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Lanciano
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1943
Place of death Lanciano