Carlo Rossi (Celenza Valfortore, 29 December 1880 – Turin, 21 April 1967) was an Italian general during World War II.

Born in Celenza Valfortore in 1880, the son of Michelangelo Rossi and Agnese Maria Luigia Fantetti, he attended the Military Academy of Modena and was commissioned in Parma on 22 October 1905.

[8][9][10] In October 1918, Rossi, by then a Major, broke through the enemy lines with the assault group of the 6th Army and took the Austro-Hungarians in the rear at Monte Interrotto (Asiago), thus favoring the advance of British troops in the battle of Vittorio Veneto.

To shorten its front, in mid-December the corps was assigned to the sector around Mount Tomorr and the That e Progonat lines, where the Greek offensive was stopped.

The front then became stationary until the German intervention in April 1941 and the subsequent fall of Greece, after which Rossi was promoted to Lieutenant General.

In late January 1945 he was freed by the advancing Red Army, being then held as "guest" in the Soviet Union until the end of the hostilities, when he was finally allowed to return to Italy on 6 October 1945.

[29][30][31][32][33] In 1952, he was awarded the Solemn Commendation by the Ministry of Defense, as, although captured and interned in Schokken, he had chosen to "remain faithful to the laws of military honor and refused to join the Social Republic, preferring to repatriation, the harsh sacrifice of captivity, particularly painful for his impaired physical condition".