"We do random arrests […] mass executions, burn villages for the simple urge to destroy.

«The Italians have become worse than the Germans» — you hear it everywhere: it sums up the feelings of the #Slovenians towards us."

Fascist official Umberto Rosin, writing #Otd in 1942.

#31agosto

#Otd in 1942, from Galeazzo Ciano's diary (Mussolini's Foreign Secretary & son-in-law) on Fascist Party leader A.Vidussoni's attitude towards #Slovenians.

- "There's a million of them" [Ciano suggests].
- "It doesn't matter [...]. We must exterminate them."

#5gennaio #foibe