WW2 & Modern History
Liberation Day: Exclusion and The Enemy Within
A Liberation Day note from Abruzzo: how Italian Fascism excluded women, Jews and Roma at home, and why 15 of Mussolini's 48 camps were here
A Liberation Day note from Abruzzo: how Italian Fascism excluded women, Jews and Roma at home, and why 15 of Mussolini's 48 camps were here

It's not something you hear much about, Abruzzo, hosting 1/3 of Mussolini's internment camps, it goes against the forte e gentile stereotype, so how did it get there, thank the Race Law of 1938.

Ortona has a historical reputation of being fought for and bought; its recent oil fight was one of the reasons we visited this small Abruzzo port town in Chieti


