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The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Nominee for Adult Fiction (2023) it's a city of shiftingOn March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Alessandro Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together