{"id":2458,"date":"2026-03-04T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/?page_id=2458"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:01:52","slug":"assisi-in-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/?page_id=2458","title":{"rendered":"Assisi\u00a0in\u00a0World\u00a0War\u00a0II"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2458\" class=\"elementor elementor-2458\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-840ff52 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"840ff52\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-419b298 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"419b298\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a115c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6a115c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">World War II<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aacf1a elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7aacf1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 1943-44, amidst the horrors of war, Assisi had another time of true glory. While the Allies had just landed in Sicily, Assisi was occupied by German troops. There, three men worked together to do something constructive rather than destructive: Bishop Giuseppe Nicolini, the German commander, a medical doctor, Col. Valentin M\u00fcller and Don Aldo Brunacci.<\/p><p>Divided by the war, they remained nevertheless united by their Christian faith and its mandate of unconditional love. They obtained that Assisi be made a hospital city, a city for medical care, not for military confrontation; a city for healing, not for fighting. 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