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2 unusual facts about Italian Empire


Anti-Jewish laws

Anti-Jewish Laws were adopted in the 1930s and 40s in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and exported to the European Axis powers and puppet states.

Renato Sandalli

In the early years of the 1920s he become a pilot and after the establishment of the Regia Aeronatica he left the army to become an air force officer.In the years between the two world wars he also led various units posted in Italy and in the colonies.


Alan Cunningham

During the East African Campaign General Archibald Wavell, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Middle East Command, directed Cunningham to retake British Somaliland and free Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the Italians whilst forces under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt would attack from Sudan in the north through Eritrea.


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