El-Agheila concentration camp

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El-Agheila (Libya)
El-Agheila
El-Agheila
Location of El Agheila in Libya

The concentration camp El-Agheila in the Libyan town el agheila was an Italian concentration camps of fascist Italy . It was founded in January 1930, like other camps, to intern the parts of the population that were subjected to and deported during the Second Italo-Libyan War and thus to deprive the rebellious Sanusiya of Cyrenaica under their leader Umar al-Muchtar with a genocidal warfare. 34,500 people were interned in the camp and 15,600 died as a result of poor care, torture, poor hygienic conditions or as a result of executions. The camp's guards consisted of Esercito , Carabinieri , Eritrean Askari and indigenous Zaptie . In October 1932, the camp was evacuated and the survivors were released or transferred to the Marsa el-Brega and el Nufilia concentration camps.

literature

  • 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. 193 ff.
  • Aram Mattioli: The forgotten colonial crimes of fascist Italy in Libya 1923-1933 . 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 , pp. 203 ff.
  • Gustavo Ottolenghi: Gli Italiani e il colonialismo. I campi di detenzione italiani in Africa . Sugarco 1997, ISBN 978-8871983974 , (not accessed ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aram Mattioli: The forgotten colonial crimes of Fascist Italy in Libya 1923-1933 . P. 218 f.
  2. ↑ Campo di Concentramento el-Agheila on I Campi Fascisti, accessed on March 20, 2017.