ITALIAN AFRICA, 1930s

Knud Holmboe, Desert Encounter: An Adventureous Journey through Italian Africa, translated from the Danish by Helga Holbek, intorduction by Tim Winter (The Quillian Press, 1931, 1936,1994) (From the "Introduction": "Italy in Libya provides one of the most extreme of all cases of colonial repression. Sadly. Europe's selective amenesia has all but obliterted one of the most efficient instances of genocide ever perpetrated. Even among academics there are few who have written on the theme; and the scarce exceptions have unearthed a story so schocking that even the mysterious absence of key archival records, removed by Italian state researchers in the 1950s, does little to mitigate the drama and the disgrace of it." Id. at 8.).