Fascist commander Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani was minister for war under dictator Benito Mussolini. Known as the "Butcher of Ethiopia" he was convicted of crimes against humanity following gas ...

Rome and Naples bubbled joyously one day last week. Marshal Rodolfo Graziani’s “Terribili” legions in Libya had turned terribly on their British attackers and terribly smashed them to bits. They had ...

As Ethiopia remembers thousands of people killed by Italian forces in Addis Ababa 79 years ago, survivors and veterans remain angry that Italy authorized a mausoleum for the man who ordered the deaths ...

In Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia ...

Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani was Minister for War under dictator Benito Mussolini and was convicted of crimes against humanity following gas attacks on enemy soldiers in Libya and Ethiopia, during ...

The Italian village of Affile has erected a controversial monument to Fascist military leader Rodolfo Graziani. www.affile.org Controversy has erupted in Italy after a small town east of Rome built a ...

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On August 11, an ominous ceremony was held with great pomp in the small town of Affile, east of Rome. The ceremony commemorated the erection of a mausoleum for fascist war criminal Field Marshal ...

On February 19, protestors gathered outside the Italian and Vatican Missions to the U.N. to protest a monument to a fascist war criminal that was erected in a small ...

The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame. By Ian Campbell. Hurst; 478 pages; £30. To be published in America by Oxford University Press in August. NEAR the village of Affile, on a picturesque ...