1944年3月,罗马的游击队袭击德军,在拉塞拉大街打死十二个德国士兵。党卫军上校卡普勒和罗马的警察局长卡鲁索的帮助下,为了报复此次偷袭行动,在 古老的石灰石采石场 附近的阿德堤尼洞穴将处决一些平民和一批政治犯共计一百二十人。A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.