La foto: da sinistra Antonio Prosperi e Ottavio Capozio entrambi impiegati delle Regie Poste assassinati nella rappresaglia nazista delle Fosse Ardeatine in24-3-1944.
Ottavio Capozio was born in Rome on 20 September 1922. A postal employee at the Regia Ferrovia office, in 1943 he joined the PCI of the Tor Pignattara section (Cellula capo Squadra Bellardini). During the Nazi-Fascist occupation and through his brother Luigi, he came into contact with the communist nucleus of Belardino Nuccitelli, team leader of the Post and Telegraph Group at the Express Office of Rome Railway, thus joining the Movimento Comunista d'Italia. Ottavio Capozio carried out various sabotage activities: at the postal sorting offices he stole correspondence from the German commands and the Gestapo in Rome to inform the reported comrades; in the Tor Pignattara district, on the other hand, he collaborated with his brother-in-law Domenico Polli (adherent to the Italian Socialist Party) as an informant for the Vath American Army of the transits of German armored vehicles on the Via Casilina headed for the Cassino front. Furthermore, he was a supplier of arms, especially of American and English manufacture, to his Red Banner comrades. During a clandestine meeting in the Tosoni coffee bar in via Appia Nuova, Ottavio Capozio was arrested on 12 March 1944, together with his brother-in-law and his comrades from the Postelegrafonico group. He was brutally tortured in via Tasso and shot together with his brother-in-law at the Fosse Ardeatine on March 24, 1944.
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