White Ships. The repatriation of Italians from East Africa

Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Emanuele Ertola
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/91
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 127-143 File size 127 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2014-091007
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With the fall of the Italian "empire", defeated in 1941 by the British army, an agreement between the two states permitted the repatriation of citizens from Italian East Africa. A naval expedition was organized for this purpose by the Italian government. Between 1942 and 1943 four large ocean liners made three trips circumnavigating Africa and brought back to Italy about 28,000 Italians. This paper, based on reports written by the chiefs of the expedition, focuses on one of the mission’s main features: to rescue the settlers and, at the same time, rehabilitate them politically and morally.

Keywords: Settlers, decolonization, repatriation, fascism, refugees i

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Emanuele Ertola, Navi bianche. Il rimpatrio dei civili italiani dall’Africa Orientale in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 91/2014, pp 127-143, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2014-091007