Per una storia dei profughi stranieri e dei campi di accoglienza e di reclusione nell'Italia del secondo dopoguerra

Abstract

We do not know much about post-war camps in Italy. Partly, they were internment camps built and run by the Allies, partly they were organized by Italian authorities restoring previous Fascist camps. It is evident that in 1944-1945 internees were still the older ones. In the following years Italian authorities tried to ship them back to their homeland, but it was not always simple. At the same time, new refugees came from Central-Eastern Europe. At this point, old Fascist camps had to be recycled en masse as camps for refugees, while the Allies transformed their own camps but relinquished control over them to International organizations.