Ange Grassi Memorial - Nice, France
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wildwoodke
N 43° 41.928 E 007° 16.149
32T E 360529 N 4839875
This monument / inscription on the side of this buildingis dedicated to Ange Grassi an resistance fighter of the Second World War is found on Rue de la Liberte in Nice, France.
Waymark Code: WMENP5
Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Date Posted: 06/19/2012
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The plaque reads:
Ange Grassi
Franc Tireur
Partisan Francais
FFI
Fut Pendu ici
le 7 Juillet 1944
et resta expose pour avoir resiste a l'oppresseur Hitlerien
Passant incline toi souviens toi
Translated to english
Ange Grassi,
Franc Tireur i.e. a left wing resistance group
French Partisan
Member of the Forces Francaises de L'Interieur
Was hanged here on the 7th July, 1944 and his body exposed
For having resisted the Nazi (Hitler) oppressor.
Also from Wikipedia there is information with respect to the French resistance in Nice and Ange Gassi:
"Séraphin Torrin et Ange Grassi, deux résistants communistes, sont arrêtés le 4 juillet 1944 comme otages à Gattières, sur dénonciation, avec 5 autres personnes en représailles des actions du maquis. Le 7 juillet 1944, ils sont pendus en plein jour aux réverbères des arcades de l'avenue de la Victoire devant des centaines de personnes rassemblées de force par l'Occupant. Leurs corps restent exposés pendant trois heures."
See: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lib%C3%A9ration_de_Nice
English Translation via Google Translator
Séraphin Torrin and Ange Grassi, two communist resistance fighters, were arrested July 4, 1944 as hostages in Gattières, on termination, with five others in reprisal actions of the maquis. On July 7, 1944, they were hanged from lampposts in daylight arches of Victory Avenue before hundreds of people gathered force by the occupying forces. Their bodies remain exposed for three hours.
Photographs of the street scene at the time of the hanging are posted on at this website.