Gonars concentration camp
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Photo by Stane Kolar (maybe Stane Kumar?) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
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Photo by Jakob Savinšek via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Jakob Savinšek via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Background
The Gonars concentration camp was one of the several Italian concentration camps and it was established on February 23, 1942, near Gonars, Italy. Many prisoners were transferred to this camp from another Italian concentration camp, the Rab concentration camp, which served as equivalent of the final solution in Mario Roatta's ethnic cleansing policy against ethnic Slovenes from the Italian-annexed Province of Ljubljana and Croats from Gorski Kotar, in accord with the racist 1920s speech by Benito Mussolini, along with other Italian war crimes committed on the Italian-annexed territories of Yugoslavia: When dealing with such a race as Slavic – inferior and barbarian – we must not pursue the carrot, but the stick policy.... We should not be afraid of new victims.... The Italian border should run across the Brenner Pass, Monte Nevoso and the Dinaric Alps.... I would say we can easily sacrifice 500,000 barbaric Slavs for 50,000 Italians....
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Year opened
1942
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Population held
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Opened
1942
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Death-row facility
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Data completeness
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Sources
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- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
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