List of Italian concentration camps


Italian concentration camps include camps from the Italian colonial wars in Africa as well as camps for the civilian population from areas occupied by Italy during World War II. Memory of both camps were subjected to "historical amnesia". The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that Benito Mussolini only "used to send people on vacation".

Colonial wars

There were numerous war crimes conducted by the Italian Army in the colonies. In Cyrenaica alone between 1929 and 1933 over 40,000 people were killed and 80,000 locked up in concentration camps, out of a total population of just 193,000. According to the historian Ilan Pappé, the fascist regime between 1928 and 1932 killed half the Bedouin population either directly or by starvation in the fields. According to the historian Angelo Del Boca, in 1933, of the approximately 100,000 Libyans deported from Jebel Achdar and Marmarica, more than 40,000 died in the camps.
Name of the campLocation of campPresent-day countryDate of establishmentDate of disestablishmentEstimated number of prisonersEstimated number of deaths
NocraNocraEritrea1930s1941 1,500
AbyarAbyarLibya193019333,123
AgedabiaAjdabiyaLibya1930193310,0001,500
El AgheilaEl AgheilaLibya1930193310,900
Marsa BregaBregaLibya1930193321,117
Sid Ahmed el MaghrunEl MagrunLibya1930193313,0504,500
SoluchSuluqLibya1930193320,1235,500
DernaDernaLibya19301933145
ApolloniaApolloniaLibya193019331,354
BarceBarceLibya19301933538
DrianaDrianaLibya19301933225
NufiliaNufiliaLibya19301933375
DananeMogadishuSomalia193519416,0003,175
Total~44 675

World War II

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