#Albert Kesselring

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Commander of the German Forces of the Southwest (Mediterranean, Italy) Generalfeldmarshall  (Smiling) Albert Kesselring and Commander of the Axis Forces in North Africa Generalfeldmarshall Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox, during the Battle of Libya, 1942

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10 settembre 1943, la mancata difesa di Roma

La Porta San Paolo fa parte del complesso delle mura Aureliane realizzate dall’imperatore Aureliano nel 275 d.C. e si presenta come tra le meglio conservate di tutto il circuito murario di Roma. La porta il cui attuale nome le fu conferito nel medioevo in ragione della vicinanza alla Basilica di San Paolo, il 10 settembre 1943, fu teatro dell’ultimo tentativo del Regio Esercito di evitare…

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In the fall of 1943, a group of Italian doctors (left to right)—Giovanni Borromeo, Adriano Ossicini, and Vittorio Sacerdoti���got together to come up with a fake disease called Syndrome K.

Their goal was to save the Jewish people of Rome who had fled to their hospital seeking protection by spreading rumors of a deadly, disfiguring disease that was so contagious that the Nazis would want to be nowhere near the vicinity of the patients.

Concocting a fake disease also allowed the Italian doctors and hospital staff to easily distinguish actual patients from the Jewish people who were seeing refuge. “Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish. We created those papers for Jewish people as if they were ordinary patients, and in the moment when we had to say what disease they suffered? It was Syndrome K, meaning ‘I am admitting a Jew,’ as if he or she were ill, but they were all healthy ... The idea to call it Syndrome K, like Kesselring or Kappler, was mine," said Ossicini in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa in 2016.

"Kesselring" was a reference to Albert Kesselring, the Nazi commander who was in charge of the occupation of Italy. "Kappler" was a reference to Herbert Kappler, a Nazi police chief in Rome who was responsible for the killings of 335 hostages (including 57 Jews) during World War 2.

There were special rooms designated for those infected with Syndrome K and Jewish children were encouraged to cough to discourage Nazi inspectors from entering. “The Nazis thought it was cancer or tuberculosis, and they fled like rabbits,” said Vittorio Sacerdoti in an interview with BBC in 2004.

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Syndrome K, the Fake Disease that Saved Hundreds of Lives

In 1943, three doctors in an Italian hospital weaponized the fear of disease, but not to cause harm. Instead, they used it to save some of the most vulnerable people in Italy at times: the Jews.

“Syndrome K” was a fake disease invented by Italian doctors Adriano Ossicini, Giovanni Borromeo, and Vittorio Emanuele Sacerdoti to protect Jewish patients and refugees during World War II.

By September 1943, Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime had fallen and Nazi forces were occupying Italy. Things were looking especially dire in Rome, where residents of the Jewish ghetto were being captured in large numbers and sent to concentration camps.

There was a Jewish hospital in the city, but it was a clear target for the Nazi occupiers.

Less of a target was Fatebenefratelli Hospital. Fatebenefratelli, a Catholic hospital, had stood for hundreds of years. Being a Catholic hospital, it was less of a concern for the Nazis.

Little did they know that three heroes who worked in Fatebenefratelli were determined to help the persecuted Jews in any way they could.

Tensions for Jews living in Rome were already high in 1943. To keep Jewish patients safe, Dr. Vittorio Sacerdoti asked permission to start transferring them from the Jewish hospital to Fatebenefratelli.

Sacerdoti got the approval for his plan from Borromeo and Father Bialek, and he slowly began to transfer the Jewish patients over.

Things reached a fever pitch on October 16, 1943, when Nazi forces began a raid on the nearby Jewish ghetto. Fleeing their homes, the Jewish residents crossed the Tiber River bridge, arriving at Tiber Island and the sanctuary of Fatebenefratelli Hospital.

Having to act quickly, Borromeo brought the refugees into his hospital and swiftly put them in quarantine. Dr. Borromeo and the other doctors were aware that Nazis were terrified of infectious diseases–understandably so, with how prevalent tuberculosis was at the time.

With their Jewish patients hidden in quarantine, Borromeo, Sacerdoti, and anti-fascist doctor Adriano Ossicini devised a genius plan–a fake disease to scare the Nazis away from the Jews in the hospital.

Playing on that fear of disease–tuberculosis specifically–Syndrome K came into existence.

It was Dr. Adriano Osscini who first suggested the name “Syndrome K”. The thought behind the name was that the Nazis would assume the “K” stood for “Koch disease”, another name for tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis, a debilitating obstructive pneumonia, had been discovered by Dr. Robert Koch, hence its alternative name.

In reality, Osscini drew inspiration not just from Dr. Koch, but also chose the name to represent two of the worst perpetrators of violence against the Roman Jews–Luftwaffe officer Albert Kesselring and the head of German police in Rome, Herbert Kappler.

From that moment forward, the label “Syndrome K” would be put on Jewish refugee’s charts to indicate to other doctors that the patient wasn’t actually sick. Instead, they were a Jew in hiding.

Syndrome K needed more than just a name to be intimidating, though. In order to keep the Nazi investigators at a distance, Syndrome K needed to be more than scary–it needed to be terrifying.

The list of symptoms that the doctors would attribute to the fictional Syndrome K would be enough to give anyone pause. They ranged from a terrible cough to paralysis, and an eventual, unavoidable death.

Here is a list of symptoms associated with Syndrome K:

● Dementia

● Seizures and convulsions

● Paralysis

● Trouble breathing leading to asphyxiation

● Death  

When asked about the disease, the Fatebenefratelli doctors would tell the Nazis that Syndrome K was an incredibly contagious neurological disease with no cure. This was why the patients had to be kept in a strict quarantine.

When Nazi investigators did make it into the hospital, the supposed sufferers of Syndrome K were instructed to fake a terrible, loud, wheezing cough to imitate tuberculosis. They were also told to intentionally appear frail and ill.

Although the Catholic Fatebenefratelli Hospital had drawn less attention than the nearby Jewish hospital, they wouldn’t expect to go unnoticed forever. Eventually, the Nazis appeared at the hospital doors and demanded to search the facility for any Jews.

By this time, all of the staff at Fatebenefratelli had been briefed on the Syndrome K medical deception.

The Jewish people suffering from the fake illness were also familiar with the part they had to play–pretending to be devastatingly sick with something contagious.

Borromeo and the rest of his staff were forced to admit the Nazis, but their plan went off without a hitch.

Upon being told about the mysterious Syndrome K and both hearing and seeing the ill patients in quarantine, the Nazis balked at the idea of getting any closer. Above all else, they didn’t want to risk infection with something as terrible as they believed Syndrome K to be.

“The Nazis thought it was cancer or tuberculosis, and they fled like rabbits,” Vittorio Sacerdoti would say.

Of course, this wasn’t the last time the Nazis were supposed to search the premises of Fatebenefratelli Hospital. Amazingly, fear of the fictional Syndrome K, known as Il Morbo di K by the Italian doctors, didn’t just keep the Nazi visits brief. 

On multiple occasions, it was noted that the Nazis skipped searching in and around Fatebenefratelli altogether because of Syndrome K, even when they were actively searching other nearby areas.  

Unfortunately, the solution wasn’t a perfect one. In the spring of 1944, five Jewish refugees from Poland were discovered during a rare search of the hospital. All five of them were taken away.

Despite this setback, the Syndrome K ruse was incredibly successful. While exact numbers vary, it’s thought that the doctors and staff of Fatebenefratelli Hospital managed to save around 100 Jewish lives.

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Rommel (left) and Field Marshal Albert Kesselring (centre), confer during the first Battle of El Alamein, August 1942.

Kesselring was one of the most relied upon senior commanders of the Luftwaffe and regularly visited Rommel in North Africa to provide crucial strategic advice and moral support.

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Tropas alemanas y soldados italianos de la Décima Flottiglia MAS reúnen a civiles frente al Palacio Barberini para ser ejecutados en las Fosas Ardeatinas. Roma, Italia. 23 de marzo de 1944.

La masacre de Ardeatina fue la masacre el 24 de marzo de 1944 de 335 civiles y disidentes políticos por fuerzas alemanas e italianas profascistas como represalia por el bombardeo de Via Rasella contra el Regimiento de Policía "Tirol del Sur", en el que los partisanos mataron a 28 SS y uno o dos espectadores.

El Obersturmbannführer de las SS, Herbert Kappler, dirigió la investigación y posteriormente el mayor general de la Luftwaffe, Kurt Mälzer, ordenó represalias a razón de 10 italianos por cada policía alemán asesinado (Mälzer también quería incendiar parte de Roma); Las represalias fueron autorizadas por Hitler, quien pidió su ejecución en un plazo de 24 horas.

Albert Kesselring inicialmente ordenó tomar prisioneros que habían sido condenados a muerte, pero al descubrir que las SS sólo retenían a cuatro prisioneros condenados a muerte, además de 17 que cumplían largas condenas; 167 considerados "dignos de muerte", dos civiles "sospechosos" detenidos, Wilhelm Harster, superior de Kappler, sugirió capturar a 57 judíos retenidos por el Reich, lo que significa que, al mediodía del 24 de marzo, tenían 271 víctimas listas para ser ejecutadas. Sin embargo, como habían muerto 32 personas (y una más moriría), Questore Pietro Caruso, jefe de la policía fascista de Roma, ofreció presos de sus prisiones.

El 24 de marzo, 335 prisioneros (5 más de los que exigían las normas nazis) fueron conducidos a las cuevas Ardeatinas, donde fueron ejecutados de un balazo en la nuca por grupos de cinco. Los oficiales de las SS recibieron coñac para calmar sus nervios.

Tanto Priebke como Kappler buscaron ayuda del Vaticano después de la guerra; el primero terminó en Argentina antes de ser extraditado a Italia, murió en 2013 a los 100 años, fue enterrado por la FSSPX y el segundo fue rechazado y condenado a cadena perpetua por el Reino Unido antes de escapar en 1977 a Alemania Occidental, donde vivió hasta su muerte.

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Rappresaglia 1973

Also Known As (AKA)

Argentina Masacre en Roma

Brazil (DVD title) Massacre em Roma

Brazil O Carrasco de Roma

Bulgaria (Bulgarian title)

Крьвопролитие в Рим

Denmark Massakren i Rom

Finland (Swedish title) Den stora massakern

Finland (TV title) Kostotoimi

Finland (video box title) Suuri joukkoteurastus

France Représailles

Greece (transliterated) Antipoina

Greece (reissue title) Sagi sti Romi

Greece (video title) | sfagi

Hungary Megtorlás

Ireland (English title) Massacre in

Rome

Mexico (complete title) Masacre en

Roma

Norway Massakren i Rom

Poland Masakra w Rzymie

Portugal Massacre em Roma

Romania Masacru la Roma

Soviet Union (Russian title)

Репрессалии

Spain Muerte en Roma

Sweden Den stora massakern

UK Massacre in Rome

USA Massacre in Rome

West Germany Tödlicher Irrtum

West Germany Das Massaker - Der Fall

Kappler

Release Dates

Italy 4 October 1973

USA 24 October 1973

Denmark 19 August 1974

Sweden 23 March 1975

UK July 1975

Norway 14 July 1975

Finland 12 December 1975

France 22 June 1976

West Germany 10 June 1977

Sweden 30 March 2004 (DVD premiere)

Filming Dates 13 November 1972

Regista: George Pan Cosmatos

Music by Maestro Ennio Morricone

Bruno Nicolai ... conductor

Produttore: Carlo Ponti

technical specifications

Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)

Interpreti e personaggi

Marcello Mastroianni: padre Antonelli

Richard Burton: Herbert Kappler

Renzo Montagnani: Questore Pietro

Caruso

John Steiner: Eugen Dollmann

Delia Boccardo: Elena

Duilio Del Prete: partigiano

Giancarlo Prete: Paolo

Peter Vaughan: Albert Kesselring

Renzo Palmer: Giorgio

Leo McKern: Kurt Mälzer

Guidarino Guidi: Guido Buffarini Guidi

Robert H. Harris: padre Pfeiffer

Douglas Hare: giovane soldato tedesco

Jacques Herli: Giovanni

Massimo Sarchielli: primo partigiano

alla finestra

Anthony Steel: maggiore Domizlaf Brook Williane: capitane Erich Priebke

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È il 1952. Albert Kesselring, ex comandante delle forze armate naziste e responsabile diretto delle Fosse Ardeatine e della Strage di Marzabotto, è stato appena scarcerato per presunte serie ragioni di salute, riuscendo a evitare, così, prima una condanna a morte e poi anche l’ergastolo.

Quando rientra in Germania, accolto dal cancelliere Adenauer, Kesselring dichiara non solo di non essere affatto pentito delle sue azioni, ma che, anzi, gli italiani gli avrebbero dovuto erigere un monumento.

Quando glielo riferiscono, Calamandrei non dice nulla. Si ritira nel suo ufficio, prende carta e penna e scrive un componimento in versi liberi di una forza evocativa e politica che ha pochi eguali dal Dopoguerra a oggi.

“Lo avrai

camerata Kesselring

il monumento che pretendi da noi italiani

ma con che pietra si costruirà

a deciderlo tocca a noi.

Non coi sassi affumicati

dei borghi inermi straziati dal tuo sterminio

non colla terra dei cimiteri

dove i nostri compagni giovinetti

riposano in serenità

non colla neve inviolata delle montagne

che per due inverni ti sfidarono

non colla primavera di queste valli

che ti videro fuggire.

Ma soltanto col silenzio dei torturati

più duro d'ogni macigno

soltanto con la roccia di questo patto

giurato fra uomini liberi

che volontari si adunarono

per dignità e non per odio

decisi a riscattare

la vergogna e il terrore del mondo.

Su queste strade se vorrai tornare

ai nostri posti ci ritroverai

morti e vivi collo stesso impegno

popolo serrato intorno al monumento

che si chiama

ora e sempre

RESISTENZA”.

Ancora oggi questo testo dovrebbe essere letto nella Scuola Pubblica. Soprattutto oggi, nei mesi in cui si celebra il 75esimo anniversario della Carta costituzionale.

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So whose idea was it that the German forces should surrender to the Allies rather than continue fighting a clearly lost war? Was it Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Albert Kesselring, or Karl Wolff? We know that Dulles played a role in helping to get the German’s in Italy to surrender, but who was the mastermind?

Operation Sunrise's chief negotiator on the German side was Karl Wolff, and he was the first one to broach Dulles with the idea of local surrender.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

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Ora e sempre RESISTENZA: l'epigrafe di Calamandrei al “camerata Kesselring”

http://www.afnews.info segnala: “Ora e sempre RESISTENZA”. Così il partigiano e politico Piero Calamandrei conclude la sua epigrafe ad Albert Kesselring, comandante delle forze di occupazione naziste in Italia tra il 1943 e il 1945, che chiedeva agli italiani di ringraziarlo e dedicargli un monumento per aver protetto alcune città d’arte mentre si trovava in Italia. Durante due anni di…

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La città di Nettuno, dal 19 al 22 gennaio, celebrerà gli 80 anni dallo storico “Sbarco di Anzio e Nettuno”, avvenuto il 22 gennaio 1944. Le Celebrazioni, sotto l’Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica, dell’Amministrazione Comunale di Nettuno, della Pro Loco Forte Sangallo e con il contributo della Regione Lazio, hanno voluto ricordare un evento di rilevanza storica mondiale. Lo sbarco di Anzio, anche denominato in codice “operazione Shingle”, avvenuto durante la Campagna d’Italia della Seconda Guerra mondiale, fu  ad opera del VI Corpo d'armata statunitense, guidato dal maggior generale John Lucas. Grazie a tale evento, le forze alleate crearono una testa di ponte a nord della linea Gustav consentendo all’esercito alleato di aggirarla e costringendo lo schieramento tedesco ad alleggerire il fronte di Cassino; in tal modo, riuscirono a sfondare le linee tedesche, sotto il comando del feldmaresciallo Albert Kesselring, costringendole a ripiegare verso il nord del Paese in modo da liberare Roma il 4-5 giugno dello stesso anno. Fu un evento decisivo per la seconda guerra mondiale che purtroppo costò fortissime perdite agli anglo-americani. La VI Armata del Generale John Lucas infatti, pagò un prezzo altissimo, come ci testimonia il cimitero della Battaglia di Anzio in cui sono sepolti 2316 soldati.  Il programma delle celebrazioni prevede l’inizio, il 19 gennaio, con l'apertura del Villaggio delle Forze Armate, allestito dallo Stato Maggiore della Difesa, presso il Porto Turistico Marina di Nettuno. Quest'area espositiva, estesa su oltre 3000 mq, sarà il fulcro delle celebrazioni e presenterà al pubblico una vasta e variegata esposizione di mezzi e attività. I vari gruppi Sportivi, con la partecipazione di atleti del Gruppo Paraolimpico della Difesa, offriranno eventi e dimostrazioni sportive presso il Villaggio dello Sport, permettendo al pubblico di assistere a varie esibizioni. La Polizia di Stato, per l’occasione, ha allestito l’esposizione della Lamborghini e del Pullman Azzurro con un simulatore di guida. Il calendario è denso di molteplici proposte, fra le quali, esibizioni musicali, performance delle bande di tutte le forze armate, inclusa la fanfara della Legione Allievi Carabinieri ed eventi culturali quali Mostre e spettacoli teatrali. Da segnalare sono, la Mostra Fotografica “Razione K: Il pasto del soldato in azione”, realizzata da Guido Iacchetti per l’Expo 2015 e concessa gratuitamente alla Pro Loco Forte Sangallo per questa occasione.  La “razione K” dall’inglese K-Ration, è una razione individuale giornaliera introdotta negli Stati Uniti d’America nel 1942 nel corso della seconda guerra mondiale. Era un Kit suddiviso in tre moduli separati per colazione, pranzo e cena. Per questo allestimento, vengono messe a confronto 20 differenti razioni provenienti da altrettanti Paesi disposte simmetricamente su 10 grandi tavoli. Indipendentemente dall’interesse personale per le questioni militari è senza dubbio una mostra curiosa e interessante da visitare. Un altro evento degno di nota è il “Museo a Cielo Aperto”, un vero e proprio Campo Base stile anni '40, curato dai rievocatori storici, allestito presso la Spiaggia “Le Sirene”.  Nel corso di tutta la manifestazione sarà anche possibile ristorarsi e mangiare presso vari stand gastronomici su strada realizzati in collaborazione con l'Associazione Ristoratori Nettuno in Tavola e l'IIS Apicio Colonna Gatti, per promuovere la tradizione gastronomica locale. La città di Nettuno, con questo importante anniversario, offre un'opportunità a tutta la comunità di riflettere, celebrare e ricordare eventi storici di grande importanza sia per la storia italiana che per quella mondiale. Per ulteriori informazioni e per il programma degli eventi, si può consultare il sito www.comune.nettuno.roma.it.

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In the fall of 1943, a group of Italian doctors (left to right)—Giovanni Borromeo, Adriano Ossicini, and Vittorio Sacerdoti—got together to come up with a fake disease called Syndrome K.

Their goal was to save the Jewish people of Rome who had fled to their hospital seeking protection by spreading rumors of a deadly, disfiguring disease that was so contagious that the Nazis would want to be nowhere near the vicinity of the patients.

Concocting a fake disease also allowed the Italian doctors and hospital staff to easily distinguish actual patients from the Jewish people who were seeing refuge. “Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish. We created those papers for Jewish people as if they were ordinary patients, and in the moment when we had to say what disease they suffered? It was Syndrome K, meaning ‘I am admitting a Jew,’ as if he or she were ill, but they were all healthy ... The idea to call it Syndrome K, like Kesselring or Kappler, was mine," said Ossicini in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa in 2016.

"Kesselring" was a reference to Albert Kesselring, the Nazi commander who was in charge of the occupation of Italy. "Kappler" was a reference to Herbert Kappler, a Nazi police chief in Rome who was responsible for the killings of 335 hostages (including 57 Jews) during World War 2.

There were special rooms designated for those infected with Syndrome K and Jewish children were encouraged to cough to discourage Nazi inspectors from entering. “The Nazis thought it was cancer or tuberculosis, and they fled like rabbits,” said Vittorio Sacerdoti in an interview with BBC in 2004.

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And then despite an extradition request from the Russians, the Americans let this Nazi go free after three years....

Guderian and his staff surrendered to US forces on 10 May 1945. He avoided being convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials because there was no substantial documentary evidence against him at that time.[83] He answered questions from the Allied forces and denied being an ardent supporter of Nazism.[83] He joined the US Army Historical Division in 1945 and the US refused requests from the Soviet Union to have him extradited.[84] Even after the war, Guderian retained an affinity with Hitler and National Socialism. While interned by the Americans, his conversations were secretly taped. In one such recording, while conversing with former Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb and former General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Guderian opined: "The fundamental principles [of Nazism] were fine".[85]

Guderian was released from internment in 1948. Many of his peers were not so lucky. Von Manstein was sentenced to 18 years and Albert Kesselring was given a life sentence.[86] Guderian had informed on his ex-colleagues and co-operated with the Allies, which had helped him evade prosecution.[83] He retired to Schwangau near Füssen in Southern Bavaria and began writing. His most successful book was Panzer Leader.[86] He remained an ardent German nationalist for the rest of his life. Guderian died on 14 May 1954 at the age of 65 and is buried at the Friedhof Hildesheimer Straße in Goslar.

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History

June 4

June 4, 1944 - During World War II in Europe, Rome was liberated by the U.S. 5th Army, led by General Mark Clark. Rome had been declared an open city by German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring amid Allied concerns the Germans might stage a Stalingrad-style defense that would devastate the historic 'Eternal' city.

June 4, 1972 - An express train packed with more than 600 people rammed into a stalled train at full speed in the main station of Jessore, Bangladesh, killing 76 and injuring over 500 persons.

June 4, 1989 - The Chinese government ordered its troops to open fire on unarmed protesters in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The protest had started on April 16 as about 1,000 students marched to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang, a pro-reform leader within the Chinese government. Despite government warnings, pro-reform and pro-democracy demonstrations continued for a month drawing ever-larger crowds of young people, eventually totaling over a million persons. On May 13, three thousand students began an eight-day hunger strike. The government imposed martial law on May 20 and brought in troops. On June 2, in their first clash with the People's Army, demonstrators turned back an advance of unarmed troops. However, in the pre-dawn hours of June 4, the People's Army, using tanks, machine-guns, clubs and tear gas, opened fire on the unarmed protesters. Armored personnel carriers then rolled into the square crushing students still sleeping in their tents. The Chinese government later claimed only 300 died in the attack. U.S. estimates put the toll at over 3,000. Following the massacre, over 1,600 demonstrators were rounded up and jailed, with 27 being executed.

Birthday - King George III (1738-1820) was born. He ruled England for 60 years from 1760 to 1820 and was the British King against whom the American Revolution was directed.

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2022-23 Tucson Roadrunners Roster

Wingers

#8 Michael Carcone (Ajax, Ontario) A

#9 Tyson Empey (Swift Current, Saskatchewan)

#13 Nathan Smith (Tampa, Florida)**

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#18 Mike Lombardi (Barrington, Rhode Island)**

#21 Jan Jeník (Nymburk, Czech Republic)

#22 Ben McCartney (Township 12, Manitoba)

#26 Travis Barron (Caledon, Ontario)

#39 Cameron Hebig (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

#55 Micah Miller (Grand Rapids, Minnesota)

#63 Colin Theisen (Monroe, Michigan)

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