Concentration Camps in Italy?

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(12-21-2017, 09:56 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I know Petain committed some crimes, but I didn't think it was anywhere near as big as Mussolini in Italy, even after he joined the Germans (I think that's correct).

More or less correct. I don't know if it's the same scale, but the Vichy regime also deported Jews. The concept of doing a headcount to determine the evilness is tricky - as you yourself said when mentioning that Mussolini gets a somewhat lighter treatment. Sure the situation was different, as France was defeated and had little wiggle room while Italy joined the Nazi cause willingly, but still. Many crimes are historically overshadowed by Hitler's and Nazi Germany's crimes and hence fly a bit under the historical radar.

I talk as a citizen of the "first victim" country, that was full of collaborateurs committing lots of atrocities - but for a long time didn't feel the need to deal with that dark times and evil deeds.