Campaldino

27/07/1944

Massacre of deserters

Two young Italians, in all likelihood deserters on the run, were executed at Campaldino. It is uncertain what happened. From the invaluable research of Ildebrando Caiazzo, author of “Poppi. Un paese tra due guerre” (Poppi: A town caught between two wars, published by the Poppi ANCR section in 2015) we learn that the bodies of the hapless pair were buried together in the Poppi Cemetery in 1945, where they are still at rest.