Nello Rosselli

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Italian Socialist leader, brother of Carlo Rosselli.

Born in Turin to a promenent Jewish family, Nello was a member of the reformist Partito Socialista Unitario of Filippo Turati, Giacomo Matteotti and Claudio Treves, which had split from the PSI. After the rise of Fascism, he fled to France with his brother, and from there was active in Anti-Fascist and socialist politics, helping to found the group Giustizia e Libertà and aiding the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, as well as propaganda missions within Italy iself.

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In June 1937 Carlo Rosselli and his brother Nello had visited the French resort town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne. On 9 June the two were killed by a group of "cagoulards", militants of the "Cagoule", a French fascist group, likely on the order of Mussolini.

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