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Prison camp for Italian military after the armistice of September 8, 1943, German propaganda photo "Italian Military Internees" (German: Italienische Militärinternierte, Italian: Internati Militari Italiani, abbreviated as IMI) was the official name given by Germany to the Italian soldiers captured, rounded up and deported in the territories of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe in ...
Italian prisoners of war held by the Austrians, Udine 1917. The main camps where Italian prisoners were held were at Mauthausen, Sigmundsherberg and Theresienstadt (Bohemia) in Austria-Hungary and Celle (Hanover) and Rastatt (Baden) in Germany. [4]: 126–7. Prisoners (except officers) were made to work, but while labour was compulsory ...
Duwall quickly escaped captivity, organizing the defence of Breslau, where he died from liver failure in April 1634. [1] Former Imperial general Johann Philipp Kratz von Scharffenstein was captured at the Battle of Nördlingen and taken to Vienna, where he managed to escape and fled to Silesia. He was seized again and brought back to Vienna ...
The number of prisoners who died during the war would be 751,000 (8.7% of the total), including 478,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, 122,000 Germans, 38,963 French in Germany. [15] 411,000 prisoners died in Russia (the majority of them Austro-Hungarian), [16] and more than 100,000 Italian prisoners out of 350,000 in Austria-Hungary.
Italian prisoners of war in Australia were Italian soldiers captured by the British and Allied Forces in World War II and taken to Australia. On 10 June 1940, Italy entered the Second World War on the side of Germany. During the course of the war, Great Britain and their allies captured in Ethiopia and North Africa approximately 400,000 Italian ...
In 1991, during the Gulf War, American, British, Italian, and Kuwaiti POWs (mostly crew members of downed aircraft and special forces) were tortured by the Iraqi secret police. An American military doctor, Major Rhonda Cornum, a 37-year-old flight surgeon captured when her Blackhawk UH-60 was shot down, was also subjected to sexual abuse. [147]
Italian troops landing in Trieste, 3 November 1918, after the victorious Battle of Vittorio Veneto. The Italian victory in this battle [27][28] [29] marked the end of the war on the Italian Front, secured the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and contributed to the end of World War I just one week later.
Operation Achse (German: Fall Achse, lit. 'Case Axis '), originally called Operation Alaric (Unternehmen Alarich), was the codename for the German operation to forcibly disarm the Italian armed forces after Italy 's armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943. Several German divisions had entered Italy after the fall of Benito Mussolini in ...