The Salussola massacre was a whole night of torture and violence, that took place on March 9th, 1945, meant as a reprisal to an attack conducted a few days earlier on a  column of military trucks of the "Montebello"s Fascist Command, which were moving through the city of  Salussola.
but in Salussola, after a whole night of torture and violences documented by the only one survivor, the prisoners were killed by machine guns at dawn on March 9, 1945. The massacre was intended as a reprisal to an attack conducted a few days earlier by other Partisans to a column of military trucks of the "Montebello"'s Fascist Command, which were moving through Salussola. 
