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Mussolini's camps : civilian internment in fascist Italy (1940-1943)

Capogreco, Carlo Spartaco, 1955- author, Bouchard, Norma, 1960- translator, Ferme, Valerio, 1961- translator

Overview

\"This book - which is based on vast archival research and on a variety of primary sources - has filled a gap in Italy's historiography on Fascism, and in European and world history about concentration camps in our contemporary world. It provides, for the first time, a survey of the different types of internment practiced by Fascist Italy during the war and a historical map of its concentration camps. Published in Italian (I campi del duce, Turin: Einaudi, 2004), in Croatian (Mussolinijevi Logori, Zagreb: Golden Marketing - Tehnicka knjiga, 2007), in Slovenian (Fasisticna taborisca, Ljublana: Publicisticno drustvo ZAK, 2011), and now in English, Mussolini's Camps is both an excellent product of academic research and a narrative easily accessible to readers who are not professional historians. It undermines the myth that concentration camps were established in Italy only after the creation of the Republic of Salo and the Nazi occupation of Italy's northern regions in 1943, and questions the persistent and traditional image of Italians as brava gente (good people), showing how Fascism made extensive use of the camps (even in the occupied territories) as an instrument of coercion and political control.\"--Page iii.

• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Italy. / Concentration camps Italy. / Prisoners of war Italy.
• ISBN: 1138333085, 9781138333086

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D805.I8 C35813 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE