Fascist Legacy

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Movie
Original title Fascist Legacy
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1989
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Director Ken Kirby
script Ken Kirby, Michael Palumbo
production Ken Kirby

Fascist Legacy is a two-part documentary the BBC director Ken Kirby in 1989, in two parts on the Italian war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Balkans and in the Italian colonies during the period of Italian fascism reported.

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Part 1 ( A Promise Fulfilled ) describes the Italian crimes during the occupation of Ethiopia and the Balkans . The focus is on the use of poison gas on Marshall Badoglio's orders , the bombing of Red Cross infirmaries and the massacres following the bombing of the Italian governor Rodolfo Graziani in Ethiopia and from Yugoslavia, mainly about the Italian concentration camp Rab and the atrocities in the village of Podhum reported at Rijeka.

Part 2 ( A Pledge Betrayed ) describes why the war crimes were not prosecuted because of the foreign policy interests of Great Britain and the USA and why well-known Italian war criminals were even supported.

Copy for RAI

The Italian state television RAI acquired a copy of the documentation, but it was not broadcast publicly for more than 15 years, but was only made available in an Italian version in small groups at historians' conferences and documentary film festivals.

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literature

  • Ulrich Beuttler, On the documentary "Fascist Legacy" by Ken Kirby , in: GR / SR (2004), 2, pp. 175–188

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb: Fascist Legacy , accessed October 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Fascist Legacy: Italian War Crimes on the British Universities Film & Video Council, accessed October 3, 2017
  3. ↑ Angelo Del Boca: Fascism and Colonialism - The Myth of the "decent Italians" . Published in: Genocide and War Crimes in the First Half of the 20th Century . Ed .: Irmtrud Wojak and Susanne Meinl, Campus 2004, ISBN 3-593-37282-7 , p. 201 f.