Pietro Caruso

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Pietro Caruso (10 November 1899 in Maddaloni – 22 September 1944 in Rome) was an Italian Fascist and head of the Rome police in 1944. Born in Campania in 1899, he fought in the Bersaglieri in the final months of World War I and participated in Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of Fiume in 1920–1921. In 1921, he joined the National Fascist Party, and in the following year, he participated in the March on Rome. In 1923, he joined the Volunteer Militia for National Security, rising in rank over the years from capomanipolo (Lieutenant) to primo seniore (Lieutenant Colonel). In 1941, he was one of the judges of the Extraordinary Tribunal for Dalmatia. After the Armistice of Cassibile, he joined the Italian Social Republic and organised the confiscation of the gold belonging to the Jewish population of Trieste. He met and befriended Tullio Tamburini, chief of the police of the Italian Social Republic, who in January 1944 appointed him questore (police chief) of Verona, and next month of Rome....

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