Kammala wannan magana: Bayan yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta a 1943, birnin ya zama cibiyar cibiyar kungiyar 'yan adawa ta Italiya. A ranar 7 ga Nuwamba, 1944, wani yaƙi da aka yi a kusa da Porta Lame, wanda magoya bayan Brigade na 7 na "Gruppi d'Azione Patriottica" suka yi a kan 'yan Fascist da sojojin Nazi, ba su yi nasarar haifar da tashin hankali ba, duk da cewa yana daya daga cikin manyan rikice-rikicen birane a fagen Turai. Sojojin juriya sun shiga Bologna a safiyar ranar 21 ga Afrilu, 1945. A wannan lokacin, Jamusawa sun riga sun bar birnin a gaban gaban Allied, jagorancin sojojin Poland da ke ci gaba daga gabas a lokacin yakin basasa.
Yaƙin Bologna wanda aka yi yaƙi tun 9 ga Afrilu. Na farko da ya isa cibiyar shi ne Rundunar Sojoji ta 87 na Friuli Combat Group karkashin Janar Arturo Scattini, wanda ya shiga cibiyar daga "Porta Maggiore" zuwa kudu. Tun da sojoji suna sanye da kayan ado na Burtaniya, da farko an yi tunanin cewa suna daga cikin sojojin haɗin gwiwa; lokacin da mazauna yankin suka ji sojoji suna magana da Italiyanci, sai suka zubo kan tituna don yin biki.