When anti-fascist Afro-Italian partisan Giorgio Marincola was killed on May 4, 1945, alongside 25 other partisans and civilians, it was apparently the final Nazi massacre on Italian soil. In fact, two days before the Somali-born fighter was killed by withdrawing Nazi troops, Germany had officially surrendered in Italy at the end of World War Two....
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