Down 1. The elite Nazi military force sent to occupy Rome in 1943. 2. After World War II O’Flaherty was awarded many of them, but he turned most of them down. 3. Name of the caves outside Rome where 320 Italian civilians were murdered in reprisal by the SS.
4. O’Flaherty became a master of this to fool the Germans and avoid capture while leading his escape organisation.
5. Where the pope has his summer residence. It was used to hide Jews from the Nazis. 6. A type of camp run by the SS during World War II in which millions of people were murdered. 7. An abbreviation meaning ‘prisoner of war’. 8. The tiny neutral state from inside which O’Flaherty ran his escape organisation. 9. The pope awarded O’Flaherty this title. 10. The surname of the chief of the German security force in Rome. 12. Site of the National Park in Ireland where there is a memorial to O’Flaherty. 13. The number of doctorates O’Flaherty had. 15. The forces that liberated Rome in June 1944.
