https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/e65e2e6a-b83a-4063-b384-301f8b1cb74c Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com "The Republic of Italy" is a 1947 short film that reviews the post-WWII situation in Italy. It shows the ruins of Monte Cassino, the malarial swamps of the Pontine Marshes and the sight of the Ardeatine massacre, a Nazi atrocity in which over 300 Italians were shot in reprisal for a Partisan attack on an SS regiment. This Forum Edition of the March of Time newsreel series was made for educational purposes and to show in theaters.  00:00 The film opens with cityscapes of Rome Santa Maria di Loreto, National Museum of the Palazzo di Venezia, Corte Suprema di Cassazione, The Forum, The Colosseum, and the Castle of St. Angelo. 01:32 Map of Vatican City. 01:40 Printing of an Encyclical Letter form Pope Pius XII. 01:58 Vatican officials and envoys descend staircase. 02:14 Map of Vatican City showing various buildings, apartments, railroad. 02:58 The Vatican with statues and paintings including Apollo Belvedere and Transfiguration by Raffaello Sanzio. 03:29 Michelangelo’s paintings in The Sistine Chapel 03:58 Basilica of St. Peter’s. 04:31 The vaulted crypts beneath the basilica. Visitors pray at the tombs of pontiffs. 04:52 A congregation reaches out to Pope Pius XII for blessings. 05:11 The commune of Cassino and other ruins. 05:30 Italian civilians in bombed towns, passing allied troops. They serve meals. 05:52 Title card noting the end of Italy’s pre-war dreams of a new Empire. 06:01 World War I footage shows a young Benito Mussolini. 06:12 Newsreel of a World War II-era Mussolini delivering a speech, conquering Ethiopia in 1935 with L3/33 tankettes; Spain in 1936; reviewing troops on parade with Adolf Hitler in 1939; and at war with France in 1940. 07:17 Combat footage and newspaper headlines note the success of allied armies in Tripoli, Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy’s surrender. 07:32 Mussolini disembarks a Nazi Junker Ju-52; greets Adolf Hitler. 07:40 Cheering crowds greet allied troops in Rome. 08:00 British and American officers meet at the Allied Control Commission headquarters discussing a reconstruction of Italy. 08:18 Bridges and railroad lines are rebuilt while allied engineers reconstruct public works facilities, light and power plants. 08:52 Farms in the Pontine Marshes of Central Italy are flooded. 09:00 A US Army jeep drives past a “Malaria Zone” warning sign. 09:08 Allied doctors and service workers spray the insecticide Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) 09:25 Food supplies are unloaded from military transport ships and onto trucks. Crates sand barrels neatly piled in an outdoor storage area, loaded onto trucks for distribution. Workers at various city civil supply stores load flour sacks onto carts. 10:09 Police control crowds of starving citizens while stores weigh and hand out bread. Citizens fraternize on congested city streets. 10:44 Soldiers and citizens read newspapers in shock of the Ardeatine Cave murders, a mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners by German troops. 10:58 The Ardeatine Caves; artifacts from the victims are collected, sorted, and returned to surviving relatives. 11:34 Coffins are stacked. 11:37 A type-written list of names of those destined for execution. 11:57 Grievers mourn murdered victims. 12:20 At the Palace of Justice, trials of those implicated in the Ardeatine Cave murders commence including Pietro Caruso, Fascist chief of the Rome police and his accomplice Donato Carretta. Relatives of the murdered gather in attendance. Barristers expatiate, mobs attack Carretta. 13:27 The Regina Coeli Prison in Rome. 13:35 Wayward Italian citizens carry their possessions on their backs and board military transport trucks. They march in horse-drawn wagon caravans, plow land by hand and with ox-driven plows, and plants seeds. 14:11 END The Ardeatine massacre was a mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German troops as a reprisal for an attack on the SS Police Regiment Bozen. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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