Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Rome. On June 4, 1944, the Allied Forces made its entry into Rome. The liberation of the capital from the Nazi army came after the capture of Cassino and the final attack from the Anzio beachhead by the Americans. German commander Field Marshal Kesselring thus enacted a retreat of his forces to the Gothic Line, abandoning Rome - which Italy had long since proclaimed an open city - but which the Germans had continued to use as a command and troop headquarters and as a communications and transportation hub. The city was finally liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army from Anzio.
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