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Libia 1939 (1 settembre) - 1943 (22 gennaio)   Cerca

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The colonial governor of Libya, Marshal Italo Balboa, was able to protect the Jews of Libya from the Italian Fascist Racial Laws and lessen the impact other anti-Jewish measures. The situation for the Libyan Jews worsened after Balboa's death on June 28, 1940. The British began its capture of the Cyrenaica region and its capital Benghazi in December 1940, which then led to the German counteroffensive in February 1941. The Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel fought with the British over Libya in a series of battles that lasted until January 1943. After the Italians re-established control of Cyrenaica in the late spring of 1941, the Jews living there were arrested for support of the British and those with British citizenship were deported to camps in Italy. In Libya, two types of camps were established for Jews during the Axis occupation: internment camps for Jewish and non-Jewish enemy aliens such as Tajura, Bueral, and Hun, from September 1940 to January 1943 and forced labor camps for Jewish prisoners only such as Sidi Azaz, Bukbuk, and Jadu, from May 1942 to January 1943. The Italian Racial Laws were to be implemented but the British recaptured Cyrenaica in December 1942. The British reached Tripoli on January 23, 1943, and Italian rule in Libya ended. (en-US)

Fonte

Dear, I.C.B., ed. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford and New York : Oxford Univerisity Press, 1995. p. 690

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• (PIQ) Libia