A further 300 Jews were shot or died of other causes in transit camps in Italy . Of those executed in Italy , almost half were killed at the Ardeatine massacre in March 1944 alone . The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler killed over 50 Jewish civilians , refugees and Italian nationals , at the Lake Maggiore massacres — the first massacres of Jews by Germany in Italy during the war . These were committed immediately after the Italian surrender , and the bodies sunk in the lake . This occurred despite strict orders at the time not to commit any violence against the civilian population
Ardeatine massacre
Ardeatine massacre
The Holocaust in Italy