POSTE ITALIANE on 24 April 1965 issued a set of six First Day Cover stamps honouring the 20th anniversary of the Italian Resistance. Postmark cancellation originated from Bolzano, Italy.
The Italian Resistance arose after 9/8/1944 following the disbandment of the army, creating the National Liberation Committee (CLN) chaired by the former Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi. Thus were born the formations of partisan bands that expanded from Boves throughout the territory subjected to enemy occupation, with the precise aim of creating obstacles for the enemy and favouring the Allied advance to liberate the country.
These partisan groups with their spirit of sacrifice and self-sacrifice managed to eradicate, together with the regular liberation forces, the overwhelming superiority of the enemy.
Connected with the allied advance the Resistance took control of the situation everywhere and on 4/25/1945 the CLNAI declared to assume all civil and military powers and the partisan forces broke out in a single insurrectionary movement, liberating Milan and Genoa on the same day and followed in other cities.
The set included:
- 10 lire: concentration camp
- 15 lire: liberation army
- 30 lire: persecuted
- 70 lire: resistance in the mountains
- 115 lire: resistance in the cities
- 130 lire: city of martyrs
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