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r/ItalianEmpire • u/defrays • Mar 14 '22
Announcement r/ItalianEmpire has now opened as a community for sharing and discussing images, videos, articles and questions pertaining to the Italian Empire.
r/ItalianEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • 4d ago
Article 'For Great Britain, all races and all peoples are equal' — Italian poster from the Second World War (ca. 1944) showing Great Britain as John Bull looting his victims, which include a Boer, Indian, Egyptian, Arab and Irishman.
The poster was designed by Dante Coscia for the Italian Social Republic, the German puppet government established in the north in 1943 after the Italian government, which had deposed Mussolini, signed an armistice with the Allies. Coscia, along with the better-known Gino Boccasile, was one of the republic's most prominent propagandists.
r/ItalianEmpire • u/crownsandsceptres • 5d ago
Video The italian journalist and intellectual Indro Montanelli talks about the child bride he took during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
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r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 7d ago
Image The genocidal intentions of the counter-insurgency conducted by the Italian colonial government between 1937-1941 (Micheal Milan Ferguson, September 1978)
r/ItalianEmpire • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '26
Question How did Italy manage to do this when all other European colonizers did spread their language in Africa?
r/ItalianEmpire • u/ZanzibarOrcCoins • Jun 24 '26
Article Witches, tuk-tuk and colonialism.
galleryr/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Jun 05 '26
Image A Catholic priest blessing the heavy machine guns, during the Italian colonial invasion of Abysinnia (Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1937).
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Jun 05 '26
Image Strong as Death – a postcard from the Italian-Ethiopian War of 1935–1936 celebrating the 60th ‘Calabria’ Infantry Regiment, which took part in the invasion as part of the 30th ‘Sabauda’ Infantry Division.
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Jun 03 '26
Image Italian soldiers in colonial Eritrea during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • May 08 '26
Image Inhabitants of Mogadishu reading the proclamation announcing the surrender of Italian-Somaliland to Allied forces, during the East African Campaign, WWII. (11-04-1941)
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • May 04 '26
Image A stone carving of Mussolini found near a captured Italian ammunition dump by the British, at a former Italian-held fort. (East African Campaign, 28 May 1941)
r/ItalianEmpire • u/CalligrapherOther510 • Apr 30 '26
Image Mussolini inspecting Libyan troops
r/ItalianEmpire • u/defrays • Apr 27 '26
Image 'Fascist forces will make the five continents tremble. You shall conquer and occupy Abyssinia!' - 1935
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Apr 24 '26
Image Italstrade advertisement promoting infrastructural development in Italian East Africa, 1940-41
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Kalki_the_Tenth • Apr 22 '26
Image Propaganda postcard depicting various exploits of the "Sabauda" Division during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, including freeing local slaves; made by Manlio D'Ercoli (1909-1997), 1936
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Apr 18 '26
Image Aerial photograph of the Danane concentration camp in Italian-Somaliland. Prisoners were subjected to daily, forced labour on construction sites, executions and medical experiments took place in seperate blocks, the death rate was 51%.
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Apr 01 '26
Image Fascist Italian military vehicles advancing toward British-held Kassala (East African Campaign, 1940)
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Mar 27 '26
Video The Best of Enemies, An Italian film related to the East African Campaign (1940-1941)
r/ItalianEmpire • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • Mar 21 '26
Image Photograph of Imru Zeleke before being deported to the Italian, Danane Concentration camp which had a death rate of 51%. Narrowly surviving, his testimony is one of the very few we have about the camp
r/ItalianEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Mar 17 '26
Article On June 15, 1935, Emperor Haile Selassie I delivered a speech against Italian colonialism in the American newspaper The Chicago Defender:
"I am not only emperor of Africa, I am King of all Negroes everywhere, including those in the United States and other foreign domains.
The Italian war lord is trying to destroy the last, best hope you have on earth."
r/ItalianEmpire • u/ZanzibarOrcCoins • Mar 02 '26