{"id":6330,"date":"2014-12-12T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archiviodellamemoriacivitellavaldichiana.it\/cornia-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:37:25","slug":"cornia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.archiviodellamemoriacivitellavaldichiana.it\/en\/cornia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the same time of the attack to Civitella, another group of German soldiers departed from Monte San Savino along the mountain path that goes to the small village of Cornia, passing the farms il Burrone and Solaia. The parson, Don Natale Romanelli, had just left for Verniana after celebrating Mass at seven. After a mile or so, he met a friend who told him to go back and warn the people that they had to flee. The mother and sister of the priest refused to listen to him, claiming that the Germans would not have touched the women, but in Cornia they did not spare anyone. At nine o’clock, while the men were hiding in the woods of Valibona, the Germans arrived. Some people of the hamlet witnessed the terrible scenes that occurred. The soldiers closed five women in a house, shot them and then set the fire. A woman was hit by a grenade along with a pig. The priest’s sister, who suffered from polio, was killed in the garden of her house, which was left a heap of ruins. Only the church remained intact, but was later bombed by Allied cannons.<\/p>\n

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On July 3rd<\/sup> other German troops belonging to Fallschirmj\u00e4ger-Division retreating from the Albert Line arrived in the area and settled in the church of Cornia, where they destroyed everything. Don Natale said that these soldiers had been worse than their fellow soldiers who had entered Civitella two days before. The latter used the village as the main defensive position for more than a fortnight, creating housing outside the walls, sleeping in the cellars of the houses that were still standing, putting mattresses on the floor in the church, not without having desecrated it, using vestments as toilet paper and shooting the holy images. The artillery of the 4th British Division, which at that time was already nearby, bombarded the village with the intention of driving these Germans out, with the result of bringing down other houses. The castle tower was damaged, and the whole church was in ruins, with the bell tower razed.<\/p>\n

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Lavelli Ugo, 58\u00a0years old
\nMarinelli Giovanna, ?\u00a0years old
\nMugnai Giuseppe, 68\u00a0years old
\nMugnai Olga, 43\u00a0years old<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Orsolini Rina, 19\u00a0years old
\nPontenani Rosa, 53\u00a0years old
\nRomanelli Emma, 32\u00a0years old
\nRossi Nello, 36\u00a0years old[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]Rossi Silvio, 43\u00a0years old
\nTavanti Emilia, 64\u00a0years old
\nZippi Pia, 42 anni (raped\u00a0and murdered)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_text_separator title=”Monuments and memorial stones” title_align=”separator_align_left” color=”grey”][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” interval=”3″ images=”6368,6367,6366″ onclick=”link_image” custom_links_target=”_self” img_size=”thumbnail”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_text_separator title=”The scene of the massacre” title_align=”separator_align_left” color=”grey”][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]