Claim: Rino Rossi was an officer of the law in Rhodes who was involved in the deportation of the Jews in 1944, as a result, he was punished for collaborating with the Germans.
Evidence: Rino Rossi was born in Chiavenna on 14 August 1889 and was an Italian national. Here, he took part to the deportation of the entire local Jewish community in July 1944 and was the head of the committees for the alienation of Jewish property. After his return to Italy he had no consequences for his collaboration with the Germans and became Judge at the Court of Appeal, Aquila, and then at the Court of Appeal, Rome in 1945. In 1928 he was appointed as President of the District Court of Rhodes, and then in 1934 he was appointed to the District Court in Rome. He was a judge at the Consular Court in Cairo in 1936, then seconded to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1940. In 1941 he returned to Rhodes as President of the Court of Appeal.