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...revitalized Allied force along the Tyrrhenian coast first rounded up 2,000 dazed, stranded Germans at the mouth of the Tiber, sent them to the rear. They raced almost 40 miles more, occupied one of Rome's ancient ports, Civitavecchia. Eighty miles north of Rome-25 miles ahead of Allied land patrols-Allied minesweepers poked into the harbor of San Stefano, found that it too had been evacuated...
...Rome's ancient Jewish quarter, beyond the Tiber, less than a third of the former 18,000 residents were left. But even some Jews survived the Terror. Some found private refuges. And there was always the Vatican, a haven for many, regardless of religion or political affiliation...
Like Horatius into the Tiber...
...ridge tops and villages barring the way to Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular road to Rome. On the Tyrrhenian side of the Apennines, General Mark Clark's Fifth Army climbed and clawed the mountain slopes where Wehrmacht pillboxes blocked the old Via Casilina route to the Tiber. By week's end, after three bloody days of artillery and infantry fighting, the Fifth took San Pietro village, moved toward the key Liri Valley town of Cassino...
...Tiber's west bank, behind the gates of the Vatican, Pope Pius XII, silent and aloof, is a virtual prisoner of the Nazis. The Wehrmacht polices the Vatican's entrances and exits, even struts across the colonnaded piazza of St. Peter. The tall, picturesque Swiss Guards, organized by Pope Julius II in 1505, have put aside their ancient halberds for modern rifles...