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Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II Podcast. I'm Angus Wallace. Rome, the Eternal

City, had a peculiar war. With Italy as an Axis nation, it was a target for Allied bombers but in the centre is the Vatican

home of the Pope and a neutral state within the capital of a belligerent nation.

In deference to the Pope, Allied bombing operations were curtailed, perhaps more than they might otherwise have been.

When the Italians secretly broke an armistice with the Allies and this was announced in September

1943 Rome was occupied by the Germans. With the Germans in charge

Italian men would be deported as forced labour and the Jewish population of Rome rounded up to be sent

to concentration camps.

At the same time, the Vatican became a magnet for escaped prisoners of war who would seek refuge inside the walls of the holy city.

Now I'm joined by Victor Phil Meziger. Victor is a retired US naval officer who served in Rome as the

assistant naval attache he's also the author of Rome City in Terror the

Nazi occupation 1943-44.

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