Occupied Spaces – Issue n.4

Issue n.4 / december 2024

  • Practices and Experiences of European and Non-European Occupations Between World War II and the Cold War

    Francesco Cacciatore – Occupied Italy chief editor Il quarto numero della rivista Occupied Italy raccoglie per la pubblicazione i risultati di alcuni degli interventi più significativi presentati dai partecipanti alla conferenza Occupied Spaces – Pratiche ed esperienze di occupazione europee ed extraeuropee tra Seconda Guerra Mondiale e Guerra Fredda, svoltasi presso l’Università degli Studi di Salerno……

Focus

  • ‘Seen Through GI Eyes’: American Soldiers’ Travel Narratives in Occupied Italy and Sicily

    Michael B. Limmer – University of Missouri DOI 10.53258/ISSN.2785-261X/OI/04/1233 As the Allied frontline pressed through the rugged Italian peninsula during the Second World War, it left in its wake a cast of beleaguered soldiers across Italy and Sicily in a series of military institutions and bivouacs. The lingering presence of soldiers the men and military……

  • Propaganda e identità nella Guerra Civile in Lunigiana

    Jacopo Bernardini – Università di Pisa DOI 10.53258/ISSN.2785-261X/OI/04/1238 Introduzione La Lunigiana, composta dalla media e alta valle del fiume Magra, rappresenta un microcosmo amministrativamente diviso tra la provincia ligure della Spezia e quella toscana di Massa-Carrara. Separata dai capoluoghi toscani, Massa e Carrara, dal massiccio naturale delle Alpi Apuane, la regione ha sempre beneficiato della……

  • From Liberators To Occupiers? The British ‘Occupation’ Of Belgium In The Early Cold War.

    Michael Auwers – State Archives of Belgium’s Study Centre for War and Society DOI 10.53258/ISSN.2785-261X/OI/04/1244 Introduction: “No Russians, but no English either! […] We want to fight for Belgium! […] BUT FOR NO STRANGERS!!! AWAY WITH ALL THE STRANGERS!!! And away with the Traitor Government that sells us out!!! […] First one betrays the King!……

Immaginari

  • The spatial imaginary of the Balkans in second world war Italian service newspapers

    Nicolas G. Virtue – Department of History, King’s University College at Western University, Canada DOI 10.53258/ISSN.2785-261X/OI/04/1229 Introduction In February 1943, propaganda officers of the Italian Second army in occupied Yugoslavia struggled against the grim reality of recent events: Axis forces had suffered serious reverses in North Africa and Russia; Italian cities were increasingly falling prey……

  • I Balcani nel cinema: storie e immagini di territori occupati tra ex-Jugoslavia e Albania

    Ornella Castiglione – Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca DOI 10.53258/ISSN.2785-261X/OI/04/1242 Introduzione L’articolo si propone di inquadrare le cinematografie di due Paesi dell’area balcanica, quali l’Albania e la ex-Jugoslavia, al fine di individuare dei tratti comuni che permettono di far convergere la lettura di alcune opere significative riguardo alla tematica dei territori occupati. Il corpus maggiore……

Protagonisti

picture by Library and Archives Canada (LAC) – German prisoners during invasion of France

issue n.4 published in collaboration with “Avalanche” project 

“Audio Visuals And Languages Analysis Network for Cultural Heritage in Europe – Avalanche of Democracy”

supported by UE CERV-2023-CITIZENS-REM (European Remembrance)

https://avalanche.europeanremembrance.org

Occupied Italy

Open Access Journal

research project

Occupied Italy is a digital, full-text, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. It is dedicated to the study of Italy during the Second World War and the consequences of the conflict for the country, starting from the Allied landing in the summer of 1943 and up to the years of the Cold War.

saving memory

Occupied Italy is a project created by Mu.Bat association to encourage international research on the topic of Italian events in the context of the Second World War and of the national and international developments in the following Cold War period.