Italian concentration camps include camps from the Italian colonial wars in Africa as well as camps for the civilian population from areas occupied by Italy during

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. Memory of both camps were subjected to "historical amnesia". The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in ItalyAlessandra Kersevan 2008: (Editor) Foibe – Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica. Kappa Vu. Udine. and in 2003 the Italian media published

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's statement that

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only "used to send people on vacation".''Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia''
, 2003,

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Colonial wars

There were numerous war crimes conducted by the

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in the colonies. In

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alone between 1929 and 1933 over 40,000 people were killed and 80,000 locked up in concentration camps, out of a total population of just 193,000. According to the historian

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, the fascist regime between 1928 and 1932 killed half the Bedouin population either directly or by starvation in the fields. According to the historian Angelo Del Boca, in 1933, of the approximately 100,000 Libyans deported from Jebel Achdar and Marmarica, more than 40,000 died in the camps.

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References

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External links

campifascisti.it
Online Research project
"The Last Witnesses"
2013 Exhibition at National Museum for Contemporary History (Slovenia) documenting photos and interviews with survivors {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian concentration camps *

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Italian war crimes