The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame
In this free talk by author Ian Campbell, he will discuss how in February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini’s High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, ‘repression squads’ of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenceless residents of Addis Ababa. In three terror-filled days and nights of arson, murder and looting, thousands of innocent and unsuspecting men, women and children were roasted alive, shot, bludgeoned, stabbed to de
6:30pm - 8pm, free admission but registration via The Wiener Library website essential
The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
Wed 1 Nov 2017