Guglielmo Nasi
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Awards | Colonial Order of the Star of Italy Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus Military Order of Savoia Order of Vittorio Veneto Silver Medal of Military Valor (4 times) Maurician medal Military Career Medal (10 years) Commemorative Medal World War I 1915 - 18 (4 years of campaign) Commemorative Medal to the Italian Unity Commemorative Medal to the Allied Victory |
Other work | UN Commissar for Somalia |
Guglielmo Ciro Nasi (21 February 1879 – 21 September 1971) was an Italian general who fought in Italian East Africa during World War II.
Biography
Nasi was born in
In 1928, Nasi was sent to the Italian colonies as Chief-of-Staff for the Colonial Troops and was Vice-Governor of Cyrenaica in 1934–1935, Governor of Harar from 1936–1939, and Governor of Shewa in 1939–1940. He also served as a Vice-Governor of Italian East Africa from 1939. Nasi promoted a moral reformation of the military and civil administration and he showed notable skills in dealing with indigenous chiefs.
In April 1936, during the
After the beginning of
During the
Nasi was sent to Kenya as a prisoner of war. After the death of Duke Amedeo, he was responsible for the 60,000 Italian prisoners kept there. Nasi returned to Italy in 1945. Four years later, he was appointed as Commissar for Somalia when the latter was assigned to United Nations suzerainty. Nasi died at Modena in 1971.
Aftermath
Although Nasi was listed as a war criminal by the post-war Ethiopian government, Italian historian Angelo Del Boca, usually very severe in judging the behaviour of the Italian army in the colonies, considers him the best officer of the Regio Esercito in East Africa. Solomon Getahun supports this view of Nasi, noting that his behaviour towards the inhabitants of Gondar and the adjoining territories helped him to sustain the fight against both British and Ethiopian forces as long as he did.[1] Near Gondar a mount is still named Mount Nasi.[citation needed]
See also
- Second Italo-Abyssinian War
- East African Campaign (World War II)
- Italian conquest of British Somaliland
- Battle of Gondar
References
- ^ Getahun 2005, p. 38.
Bibliography
- Getahun, Solomon Addis (2005). History of the City of Gondar. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-56-902195-8.