Rodolfo Graziani

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Rodolfo Graziani was an Italian military commander and colonial administrator notorious for his brutal campaigns and war crimes in North and East Africa under Mussolini’s Fascist regime.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian Fascist politician
Italian general
colonial administrator
human
military commander
war criminal
allegiance Italian Social Republic
Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath natural causes
closeTo Benito Mussolini
conflict Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)
North African campaign
Second Italo-Senussi War
World War II
countryOfCitizenship Italy
Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1882-08-11
dateOfDeath 1955-01-11
employer Italian Social Republic armed forces
Royal Italian Army
familyName Graziani
fullName Rodolfo Graziani
givenName Rodolfo
ideology Italian Fascism
knownFor mass reprisals against civilians in Ethiopia
ordering executions and deportations of resistance fighters
use of chemical weapons in Ethiopia
use of concentration camps in Libya
languageSpoken Italian
memberOfPoliticalParty Italian Social Republic
National Fascist Party
militaryRank Maresciallo d’Italia
Marshal of Italy
notableFor brutal colonial campaigns in Ethiopia
brutal colonial campaigns in Libya
repression of resistance in Italian North Africa
service under Benito Mussolini
war crimes in East Africa
notableWork La mia vita (autobiographical writings)
perpetratorOf Graziani massacre in Addis Ababa (1937)
mass internment of Cyrenaican population
placeOfBirth Affile
Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED
Lazio
Province of Rome
placeOfDeath Italy
Rome
positionHeld Chief of Staff of the Italian Social Republic armed forces
Governor-General of Italian Libya
Minister of National Defense of the Italian Social Republic
Viceroy of Italian East Africa


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