Nostradamus has predicted:

The pillage of Calabria Coast by the Germans

According to my own method of interpretation,
only french lines in dark blue will be analysed and interpreted


Quatrain IX-61

La pille faite à la côte marine,
Incita nova et parens amenez
Plusieurs de Malte par le fait de Messine
Estroit serrez seront mal guerdonnez.

The pillage of the marine coast,
Will extend to Cittanova and Parenti:
Many of Malta by way of Messina,
Narrow straight will not be well protected .



Analysis:

pille
coste


incita nova


parens

Amenez


modern french pillage, pillaging
modern french: côte, coast . However, in english, the french word côte can either be a hillside or coast. So, Nostradamus uses a pleonasm coste marine, to indicate it is a coast and not a hillside.
by splitting up the word incita, we have the latin preposition in that means towards, against. Then, joining the words cita and nova, we have Cittanova, a town in the Calabria region, south of Italy.
old french for parents, parents. However, in italian, the word parents becomes Parenti. There is a town called Parenti, not far from Cittanova.
to bring, to forward. It could also be taken in the sense of to extend to.
Interpretation

The pillage of the coasts of Calabria
Will spread from Cittanova to Parenti.

History

Following the 1943 landing of the allies in Calabria, Italy had to suffer pillage and destruction when the italians surrendered, and the german armies found themselves alone against the allies. The landing in Calabria was aimed at disloging them from the towns of southern Italy.

On the shores of Calabria

This brief vision of Nostradamus gives us a good idea of the cruelty of german soldiers who, realizing they were losing Italy, showed their true colors and began the pillage of italian towns:
[P.60] Thus, the italian people and the world learned that the Axis [Germany- Italy-Japan] was broken, that it was the end of fascism. However, Italy would now know the horror of a war because, that same day, its former allies, the germans, attacking and disarming italian troops left with no orders, prepared to defend dearly the peninsula [on the coasts, as the landing would occur there] where general Clark's 5th american army was about to set foot [in Calabria and the gulf of Salerno].
]Translation - Mémorial de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Tome 3, Sélection du Reader's Digest 1965]

The pillage and destruction that began on the coast continues in the interior of the country. In their advance, the allies had to go through the town of Cittanova devastated by the Germans:
[P.218] In the meantime, the 2nd brigade was marching upon Cittanova. [Incita nova] The infantry was now too far to receive the help of sappers; the battalion, assisted by the troopers, fought to get through the frequent and massive demolitions [la pille] the Germans left behind them....
[Translation - Les Canadiens en Italie - Lt. Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson)


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