9,000 people were killed there during April and May of 1945 only. Proportionally, the scale of vengeance killings was much greater than in Belgium and significantly above this recorded in France. Casualties According to a book published in 1955 by an Italian ministerial committee on the tenth anniversary of the Liberation, casualties in Italy among the Resistance movement amounted to 35,828 partisans killed in action or executed, and 21,168 partisans mutilated or left disabled by their wounds. Another 32,000 Italian partisans had been killed abroad (in the Balkans and, to a lesser extent, in France). 9,980 Italian civilians had been killed in reprisals by the German and Fascist forces. In 2010, the Ufficio dell'Albo d'Oro of the Italian Ministry of Defence recorded 15,197 partisans killed; however, the Ufficio dell'Albo d'Oro only considered as partisans the members of the Resistance who were civilians before joining the partisans, whereas partisans who were formerly members of the Italian armed forces (more than half those killed) were considered as members of their armed force of origin. Liberation Day Since 1949, April 25 has been officially celebrated as Liberation Day, also known as Anniversary of the Resistance. Speaking at the 2014 anniversary, President Giorgio Napolitano said: "The values and merits of the Resistance, from the Partisan movement and the soldiers who sided with the fight for liberation to the Italian armed forces, are indelible and beyond any rhetoric of mythicization or any biased denigration. The Resistance, the commitment to reconquer Italy's liberty and independence, was a great civil engine of ideals, but above all it was a people in arms, a courageous mobilization of young and very young citizens who rebelled against foreign power." See also Anti-fascism ANPI, an association of the participants to the Italian resistance Volante Rossa an Italian communist antifascist militia active after WWII People's Squads, an Italian left-wing antifascist militia active during the early 1920s "Bella Ciao", anthem of the anti-fascist resistance Mazzini Society, formed by expatriate Italian anti-Fascists in the United States Anni di piombo Anarchism in Italy German resistance to Nazism Japanese dissidence during the Showa period Museum of the Liberation of Rome In works of popular culture The Abandoned Achtung! Banditi! Bebo's Girl Beneath a Scarlet Sky Blood of the Losers Captain Corelli's Mandolin Cloak and Dagger Cloak & Dagger A Day for Lionhearts A Day in Life The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission Escape by Night Everybody