Groups of fascist sympathizers have placed anti-Jewish leaf lets on the coffins of Jews murdered by the Germans during the Nazi occupation of Rome, it was reported here today. The leaflets–which were discovered by relatives who came to visit the mausoleum at Fosse Ardeatine–said: “Not enough of you have been shot,” “Death to the Jews,” and “We shall do better.”
Italian police investigating the outrage said they have arrested four persons who were carrying explosives. It is “believed that the four had planned to blow up the mausoleum, where the corpses of 75 Jews executed as hostages by the Nazis repose.
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