1. Italy And The Holocaust
... restricting their rights as Italian citizens. On June 10, 1940, Italy declared war on the Allies, and by no means was the Italian army prepared for battle. Early in the war, army units found themselves retreating wherever they invaded - Greece at the end of October 1940, and North Africa by January 1941. Italy lost Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia by April, along with 250,000 prisoners ... became clear that Nazis and Fascist sympathizers would hunt them down as deserters anyway. Many others were captured immediately; about 640,000 Italian officers and men spent the remainder of the war in ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate