Rail transport in Italy high-speed train was the Italian ETR 200, which in July 1939 went from Milan to Florence at , with a top speed of . With this service, the railway was able to compete with the upcoming airplanes. The Second World War stopped these services. After the Second World War, Italy started to repair the damaged railways, and built nearly of new tracks. Nowadays the rail tracks and infrastructure are managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), while the train and the passenger section is managed mostly by Trenitalia. Both are Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) subsidiaries, once the only train operator in
The Holocaust in Italy Italy were arrested by the Italian police. A few hundred Jews from Libya, an Italian colony before the war, who had been deported to mainland Italy in 1942, were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp instead. Most of them held British and French citizenship and most survived the war. Altogether, almost 8,600 Jews from Italy and Italian-controlled areas in France and Greece were deported to Auschwitz; all but 1,000 were murdered. A further 300 Jews were shot or died of other causes in transit camps in Italy. Of those executed in Italy, almost half were killed at the Ardeatine massacre in