Nocra prison camp

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The Nocra prison camp was an Italian

political prisoners
.

Years after the official end of the

Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the Italian authorities sent Ethiopian and Eritrean intellectuals and political prisoners with their families there.[1] It was dismantled in 1941 after British forces occupied the island after the Battle of Keren.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.
  2. ^ Anthony D'Avray. Lords of the Red Sea:The History of a Red Sea Society from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. P. 222.