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Female internees of the Italian (colonial) Danane concentration camp; prisoners were subjected to daily forced labour, while being at risk of malaria, harsh punishments (including amputation) and fatal medical experimentation. The death rate was 49%. (Italian East Africa, 1937)

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Female internees of the Italian (colonial) Danane concentration camp; prisoners were subjected to daily forced labour, while being at risk of malaria, harsh punishments (including amputation) and fatal medical experimentation. The death rate was 49%. (Italian East Africa, 1937)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 1 day ago

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Painting from the artist, Lorenzo Nistri, of the Battle of Culquaber between the Italian and the Allied forces, characterised by brutal, hand-to-hand combat (WWII, East African Campaign, 1941)

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A Fascist Italian soldier deploying an illegal chemical weapon, called mustard gas (prohibited by the Geneva Protocol), resulting in tens of thousands of civilian casualties. The Fascist regime in Rome would, however, deny the usage of it. (Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1936)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 2 days ago

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An illustration of the Battle of Adwa during the first Italo-Ethiopian war (1895-1896), leading to the Italian retreat out of Ethiopia. This was one of the first decisive victories by African forces over a European colonial power.

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 4 days ago

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Corpses of East African victims of a racial reprisal after an attempted assassination of Fascist Viceroy, Rodolfo Graziani, rounded up for mass-cremation (Italian East-Africa, 1937). The death-toll is estimated to be around 19.000, no perpetrator was put on trial.

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 4 days ago

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Photographs of confined Ethiopians in the Italian town of Longobucco, deported in an attempt to destroy resistance, during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1937)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 4 days ago

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British soldiers operate an Italian artillery piece abandoned by retreating Italian forces inside a local fort (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 5 days ago

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The Emperor of Abyssinia and a British officer are pictured taking refreshment during the Allied liberation of Italian-occupied Abysinnia (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)

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South African troops posing with a captured Italian flag in newly liberated Abysinnia (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 5 days ago

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Captured Italian M11/39 tanks being inspected by British forces after the battle of Agordat and the subsequent Italian retreat (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 5 days ago

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Photograph of Sudanese soldiers from the British army with a captured Italian anti-tank gun after the succesful recapture of Italian-occupied territory (East African Campaign, 1940)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 6 days ago

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A braided, Ethiopian partisan carrying a captured Italian Breda light machine gun, during the anti-colonial war against the Fascist occupation (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 6 days ago

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An aerial photograph of motorized, Fascist Italian troops advancing toward the city of Kassala in British-Sudan (East African Campaign, 1940)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 6 days ago

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An Ethiopian partisan carrying a captured Italian Breda light machine gun, during the Allied offensive into occupied Italian East Africa (East African Campaign, 1940-1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 6 days ago

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Fascist Italian anthropologist, Lidio Cipriani, moulding a facial cast on a South African Zulu for racial anthropological studies. He contributed to the intellectual climate behind Mussolini's racial laws in the Italian Empire. (1927)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 21 days ago

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Iconic photos of Mr Scirè, dubat-veteran of the East African Campaign (WWII). During the UN mission "Restore hope", Somaliland (1993) he walked up to the Italian command, in Dubat uniform, and said: ''I knew you've come back, I'm here to enlist again; once more!''

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 22 days ago