Unveiling of the Monumento al Bersagliere (Corps d’elite) in Rome, Italy. King Vittorio Emmanuele III (King Victor Emmanuel III) pays tribute to Bersaglieri (sharpshooters of the Royal Italian Army). The unveiling of the Monumento al Bersagliere (Monumento al Bersagliere, Via Nomentana, 2, 00161 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome. King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy, Crown Prince Umberto II and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini stand with military officers and officials. The Italian king, the crown prince and Mussolini walk on road. People gather to celebrate. King Vittorio Emanuele III at the balcony. People watch them.
Events in Italy in 1937. A motorcade of Benito Mussolini moves past a crowded street in Rome, Italy. Mussolini extends his arm in a “Roman Salute” from his car along the Via dei Fori Imperiali. 50,000 Italian women gather to welcome Mussolini. He addresses the crowd from his balcony in Palazzo Venezia (Piazza di S. Marco, 49, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Women dressed in traditional Lazio attire cheer Mussolini outside the Colosseum in Rome.
Gifts given to traffic policemen in Rome, Italy. A historical building in the background. People crowd on a street. A man gives gifts to the traffic police. The gifts are kept at the center of the road in a growing pile beside a policeman on duty. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
European swimmers gather for the 26th annual 'Across Rome' water race contest in Rome, Italy. Swimmers jump and swim across the Tiber River. Tugboats and few small boats escort the swimmers. Swimmers swim past the Castel Sant’angelo (Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma RM, Italy). Swimmers under the Ponte Sant'Angelo. Spectators on the riversides follow and cheer for the swimmers. Italian swimmer Renato Bacicalupo is the winner of the race.
Italy during World War II. A map of Italy shows various places. German infantry and cavalry units march ahead in Italy after the capitulation to Allies of Marshal Badoglio. Soldiers in an armored personnel carrier approach the Italian Alps. Nazi officers, including field marshal Erwin Rommel, are seen outside a building. German soldiers mounted on a tank move into an Italian city as people wave to them. Soldiers fire, explosion occurs and a pillar of smoke rises up. German forces occupy Reggio, Padua and Milan. Germans in an armored personnel carrier approach the Arch of Peace in Milan. Soldiers fight in the streets of Rome. A building with a Nazi sign on its gates. German soldiers celebrate after taking over the city. They smoke. Soldiers with women outside a building and pull a kitten from their uniforms to present to her. Soldiers in a jeep enter Rome with Colosseum in the background.
Over 4,000 American prisoners of war (POW) are taken to Rome, Italy during World War II. Captured United States soldiers jump from trucks near the Colosseum, in Rome, Italy. German soldiers guarding prisoners of war. View of Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). The line of marching American prisoners stretches far along the Via dei Fori Imperiali road. Italian spectators watch from the sidewalks, in silence.
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