The campaign of Italy, during the Second World War, saw several combat formations of the German army, from the Wehrmacht to the Luftwaffe, among these there were also departments of the Waffen SS or SS fighters who flanked departments of the SS of the Waffen SS or SS fighters who flanked departments of the SS Polizei and intelligence services Germanic. In the summer of 1943 the Waffen SS in Italy were present only with the Sturmbrigade “Reichsführer”, located in the garrison of Corsica. Th...

Aribert of Intimiano, bishop and soldier. In the spring of 1034 a strong Italian contingent of loricati, heavily armed knights named for their armor known as lorica, crossed the Alps through the Great St. Bernard Pass, having left the fortified castle of Bard that protected the western Italic border from Burgundy. The Italic army pounced, swiftly, in the canton of Fribourg, against the castle of Murten, defended by the Burgundians and located north of the Alpine range, nea...