As Cruel as Anyone Else: How Italy Evades its Colonial Atrocities
From massacres in Ethiopia to camps in Yugoslavia, Italy’s dark imperial legacy remains shrouded in denial, shielded by myths of...
Paolo Fonzi is Professor for Contemporary History at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples – Federico II.
He has been Research Fellow at different academic institutions such as the National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy, the German Historical Institute in Rome, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
His areas of expertise are German History from the First to the Second World War, history of Fascism, in particular of Fascist WWII occupations, Modern Greek History, history of Genocide. His publications include a book on the Italian occupation of Greece, and one on Italy’s WWII occupations in Europe, as well as several articles and book chapters on these subjects.
From massacres in Ethiopia to camps in Yugoslavia, Italy’s dark imperial legacy remains shrouded in denial, shielded by myths of...
