Circular C3
The Circular C3 is a circular issued by the Italian General Mario Roatta of March 1, 1942 - a kind of manual for fighting partisans - to the senior officers of the 2nd Army in occupied and partially annexed Yugoslavia . Roatta wanted to transform the good Italian soldiers ( boni italiani ) into warriors. Roatta instilled in his soldiers that the barbaric partisans and the civilian population who supported them were a racially inferior breed (bandits, Bolsheviks and wicked ).
The same strategy of scorched earth , ethnic cleansing , mass internment in Italian concentration camps , hostage-taking , hostage shooting and Italian colonization as previously practiced by the Italian military in Africa was recommended for repression against the Yugoslav underground movement . The High Command of the Second Army had no objections to the evacuation of entire regions. In terms of extent and nature, the Italian actions hardly differed from those of the Wehrmacht and the SS .
Since the Italian armies in Albania , Macedonia and Greece acted similarly, the Circular C3 can be used as a paradigm for the repression by the Italian General Staff in the Balkans .
literature
- Rodogno, Davide: Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War . Cambridge. Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-84515-1
- Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi: The Italian Army in Slovenia . Palgrave 2013, ISBN 978-1-349-44807-4
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rodogno, Davide: Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War . Cambridge. Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-84515-1 , pp. 148 f.
- ↑ Rodogno, Davide: Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War . Cambridge. Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-84515-1 , pp. 333 ff.
- ↑ Rodogno, Davide: Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War . Cambridge. Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-84515-1 , p. 332.