 The Black Ministerial Brigade was born following the imminent fall of Rome in 1944, by Benito Mussolini and Alessandro Pavolini, Secretary of the Republican Fascist Party, who militarized the Republican Fascist Party, transforming the provincial formations into the Black Brigades.On 27 August 1944, the Chief of Staff of the Black Brigades, Giovanni Battista Riggio, circulated a circular addressed to state and ministerial employees in which he hoped for their voluntary registration in the brigades.Pavolini, in turn, announces on September 17, 1944, the establishment of special ministerial departments, thus creating the Black Autonomous Ministerial Brigade, based in Brescia (704 Post Office) and which obtains the greatest success among the officials of the Ministries of Finance and of the Popular Culture

After the end of the war on April 25, 1945, the partisans shot three civilians in Pieve Vergonte