Molat concentration camp

Campo di Concentramento Molat

The Molat concentration camp ( campo di concentramento di Melada ) was an Italian concentration camp of Fascist Italy on the island of Molat at the time of the Second World War and was subordinate to the Italian Ministry of the Interior . The camp existed from June 30, 1942 to September 8, 1943 and, like the Gonars and Rab concentration camps, was mainly used for interning Slovenes , Croats and Serbs in order to be able to settle Italians in annexed Dalmatia . According to the commemorative plaque, the camp, consisting of five barracks, was passed through by around 20,000 prisoners, of whom around 1,000 died or were shot.

Prisoner Numbers

	June 1942	July 1942	August 1942	September 1942	November 1942	December 1942	January 1943	February 1943
Prisoners	223	1,320	2,337	2,300	2,200	2,400	1,627	1,500

See also

• Anti-slavism

Web links

• Campo di Concentramento Molat on I Campi Fascisti
• Italian concentration camp in Jaza bay on the island Molat on Jasenovac Memorial Site

literature

• Tea Sindbæk Andersen: Zaratini: Memories and Absence of the Italian Community of Zadar . Published in: Whose Memory? Which Future? Ed .: Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Berghahn Books 2016, ISBN 978-1-78533-122-0 , p. 156 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pamela Ballinger: History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans . Princeton University Press 2003, ISBN 0-691-08696-6 , p. 139.
2. ↑ Tea Sindbæk Andersen: Zaratini: Memories and Absence of the Italian community of Zadar . P. 157.
3. ↑ Carlo Spartaco Capogreco: I Campi del duce . Giulio Einaudi 2004, ISBN 88-06-16781-2 , p. 273.