from the Roma battleship ammo depot. She sunk with Admiral Bergamini and most of crew. September 9 1943.
Bergamini didn't want to surrender the fleet following Badoglio and the king in the never seen shame of delivering a fleet to the enemy. He was thinking to a scuttling or to a internment in a neutral port. 
In fact the commander of cruiser Attilio Regolo, after the sinking of Roma, with some destroyers went to the Baleares following the former ideas of Admiral Bergamini. The rest of the fleet followed the official orders.
The paradox of the German attack was that they caused what they feared and probably wouldn't happen with Bergamini alive. DVX

High column of smoke and flames

This German soldier looted this porcelain pot probably for a family member or girlfriend back home. But was shot down or froze to death still clutching the pot. R.I.P.

Russia

Dramatic picture of a flying accident over Gorizia airport, 1941. A Picchiatello (Italian Stuka) crashes over a file of Macchi 200s, killing the pilot and a member of ground personnel. DVX