Codice albumGBB-F-006222

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006222-0000

1937 ca, FRANCE: The italian Anti-Fascist CARLO ROSSELLI (1899-1937). Italian political leader, journalist, historian and anti-fascist activist, first in Italy then abroad. He developed a theory of reformist, non-Marxist Socialism inspired by the British Labour movement, that he described as" liberal Socialism". Rosselli founded the anti-fascist militant movement Giustizia e Libertà. Rosselli personally took part in combat in the Spanish Civil War where he served on the Republican side. In June 1937 Carlo Rosselli and his brother Nello Rosselli (1900-1937) visited the French resort town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne. On 9 June the two were killed by a group of" cagoulards", militants of the" Cagoule", a French fascist group, on the orders of Benito Mussolini via Costanzo Ciano and the Italian Fascist Secret Service (OVRA). Carlo was shot and mutilated. All happened in a forest, the brothers Rosselli had been taken for a ride in gangstern style, shot in the back and thrown from a car. The car was later discovered by the french Police, the rear seat blood stained

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