Fascist Legacy: Italian War Crimes

Synopsis: Broadcast on BBC 2 from 1/11/89.
Investigates Mussolini’s policy of Italianisation in the Balkans, during which Italian forces murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians, and asks why there was never an Italian equivalent of the Nuremburg trials. In 2 parts: 1) A Promise Fulfilled: Reveals the atrocities committed in Italy’s colonies. Survivors testify to mass executions in Yugoslavia and the starving to death of thousands of Yugoslav citizens in italian concentration camps. Asks why, despite the Allies’ promises represented by Churchill in 1943, justice was never done; 2) A Pledge Betrayed: Shows how the answer lay not only in the general inadequacies of the Allied war crimes programme, but also in the political objectives behind British and American foregn policy. Records recently discovered give a tell how, for political and military reasons, the Allies preferred not only to support known Fascist war criminals in power, but to protect them from an international war crimes trial.
Series: Timewatch, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Year of production: 1989
Availability: Out of distribution
Subjects: History; Politics & government
Keywords: Balkans; Fascism; Mussolini, Benito; war crimes; World War II; Yugoslavia

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Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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