Temistocle Testa

As Colonel (Console Comandante) of the Blackshirts from 1923 to 1931 he commanded the 73rd Legione (Mirandola) of the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (M.V.S.N.).

The five years of his rule (1938–1943) overlap with the beginnings of World War II and the Italian attack and Invasion of Yugoslavia.

For example, on 12 July 1942, he ordered a reprisal in the village of Podhum, in which at least 91 civilians were shot, 200 families deported and all the houses set on fire.

Soon he was nominated High Commissar for Sicily (Alto Commissario Civile per la Sicilia) a position he held from June 1943 to January 1944.

[7] After the fall of Rome, Testa was again employed at the Service Directorate for War Intendancy of the Italian Social Republic Minister of the Interior in Milan with the specific task of controlling all the motorized traffic in northern Italy.