Nello Rosselli was an Italian

Italy

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 Socialist leader and historian.

Rosselli was born in Rome

Rome

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 to a prominent Jewish family, and was the brother of Carlo Rosselli

Carlo Rosselli

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. Nello was a member of the reformist

Reformism

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 Partito Socialista Unitario

United Socialist Party (Italy, 1922–1930)

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 of Filippo Turati

Filippo Turati

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, Giacomo Matteotti

Giacomo Matteotti

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 and Claudio Treves

Claudio Treves

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, which had split from the PSI. After the rise of Fascism

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, he fled to France

France

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 with his brother, and from there was active in anti-Fascist and socialist politics, helping to found the group Giustizia e Libertà

Giustizia e Libertà

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 and aiding the Republicans

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 in the Spanish Civil War

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, as well as carrying out propaganda missions within Italy.

Murder

In June 1937, Nello went to visit his brother, Carlo, at the French resort town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne

Bagnoles-de-l'Orne

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, Orne

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. On 9 June the two were killed by a group of "cagoulards", militants of the "Cagoule

Cagoule

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", a French fascist group, likely on the orders of Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

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.