Rome falls to the Allies, first Axis capital to fall, 70 years ago this hour (June 4 1944)


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(Sunday, June 4, 1944, after 6:00 p.m. local time; during the Italian Campaign of World War II) — Triumphant Fifth army troops tonight captured Rome one day after the Germans declared it an open city, bringing liberation for the first time to a Nazi-enslaved European capital.


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