Leo Valiani
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Leo Valiani was an Italian historian, politician, and journalist.
1946 work ID issued to former partisan Leo Valiani.
Valiani's grave at the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan, Italy, in 2015
Italian resistance movement
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The Italian Resistance, or simply La Resistenza, consisted of all the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social
Leo Valiani
…sent Valiani secretly behind enemy lines in Italy across the unstable front between the Allied and Axis forces to Rome. He moved northward to work with Italian resistance movement leader Ferruccio Parri and with Milan's anti-fascist National Liberation Committee. Valiani represented resistance leaders at meetings in Switzerland…
Clockwise from top: Flag of the National Liberation Committee A group of Italian partisans
Partisan formation during the resistance, 1944-45
Carlo Rosselli
Giacomo Matteotti