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Alessandro Pirzio Biroli

Personal information
Born	(1877-07-23)23 July 1877 Bologna, Italy
Died	20 May 1962(1962-05-20) (aged 84) Rome, Italy
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Medal record Mens' fencing Representing  Italy Olympic Games 1908 London Sabre, Team

Alessandro Pirzio Biroli (23 July 1877 – 20 May 1962) was an Italian fencer and army General.^[1]

He won a silver medal in the team sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[2][3]

In 1918, Biroli became the commanding officer for the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment. Between 1921 and 1927, he headed a military mission to Ecuador. He was commanding general of the Monte Nero Division from 1932 to 1933, and of the Italian V Trieste Corps from 1933 to 1935. He commanded the Eritrean Corps in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, and subsequently was Governor of Amhara province in Italian East Africa from 1936 to 1937.

Biroli was made General of the Italian 9th Army in 1941, and served as Governor of Montenegro from 1941 to 1943.^[1] He was appointed by Mussolini with complete civil and military powers in Montenegro on 25 July 1941 and as governor of Montenegro in October 1941.^[4]
He ruthlessly crushed the Montenegro Uprising of 1941. In 1942 he ordered 50 hostages shot for every Italian soldier killed and 10 hostages shot for every Italian soldier wounded. He also said to his soldiers : "I have heard that you are good family fathers. That is good at home, but here not. Here, you can't rob, murder and rape enough."

Despite being very high on the list of war criminals of the United Nations War Crimes Commission, Biroli was never trialed and spent his old age in Rome.^[5]

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