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- Occupied
- Occupied
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Patriotisms under Occupation (the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand)
- Part II Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities: Civil Wars under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China)
- Prologue to Part II
- 4 The Civil Wars in a Nutshell: Historical Overview
- 5 Continuities and Ruptures
- 6 From Parochial Interests to Internationalist Visions: The Fractal Structures of Political Identity in Civil Wars
- Conclusion to Part II
- Part III Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
- Bibliography
- Index
Prologue to Part II
from Part II - Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities: Civil Wars under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2023
- Occupied
- Occupied
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Patriotisms under Occupation (the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand)
- Part II Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities: Civil Wars under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China)
- Prologue to Part II
- 4 The Civil Wars in a Nutshell: Historical Overview
- 5 Continuities and Ruptures
- 6 From Parochial Interests to Internationalist Visions: The Fractal Structures of Political Identity in Civil Wars
- Conclusion to Part II
- Part III Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On February 22, 1943, in the course of the Battle of the Neretva, the Fourth Brigade of the Communist-led Yugoslav partisans took the town of Jablanica from an Italian battalion, capturing the commander in the process. On learning that their prisoner was a proud veteran of the pro-Franco Italian contingent in the Spanish Civil War, his counterparts among the partisans demanded his immediate execution. The Italian officer returned the salutation in a manner of speaking, requesting that his shooting be carried out by one of those former volunteers for the Spanish Republic. The request was denied, and he was shot by military couriers instead.1
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- OccupiedEuropean and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937–1945, pp. 135 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023