The El Agheila concentration camp was an Italian concentration camp established in El Agheila in the Italian colony of Libya during the Pacification of Libya that occurred from 1928 to 1932.[1] The camp is recorded as having a population of 10,900 people.[2]
^Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.
^Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.
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