Marsa al Brega concentration camp
 
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Location of Brega in Libya |
The KZ Marsa al Brega on the Libyan town of Brega was an Italian concentration camps of fascist Italy . It was founded in March 1931 to intern the parts of the population subjected and deported during the Second Italo-Libyan War and thereby to deprive the rebellious Sanusiya of Cyrenaica under their leader Umar al-Muchtar with a genocidal warfare. About 20,000 people were interned in the camp and it was disbanded in June 1933. The guards consisted of Esercito , Carabinieri , Eritrean Askari and indigenous Zaptie .
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 ).
Web links
- Campo di Concentramento Marsa al Brega on I Campi Fascisti
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Aram Mattioli: The forgotten colonial crimes of Fascist Italy in Libya 1923-1933 . P. 218 f.
- ^ Campo di Concentramento Marsa al Brega on I Campi Fascisti, accessed March 22, 2017