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Italian and Greek losses in the Greek campaign 1940-41

DrG

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For the Greek Campaign (Italo-Greek War) and the operations from Albania against Yugoslavia in April 1941, Mario Montanari reports, in his "L'Esercito Italiano nella campagna di Grecia", 1999, page 805, the following Italian losses:
  • deaths: 13,755 (included 10 colonels)
  • wounded: 50,874
  • missing in action: 25,067 (most of which fallen on the battlefield)
  • ill: 52,108
  • frostbitten: 12,368
Can anybody provide further data, please?
 
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jwsleser

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Let me see if I can find some additional sources. I have the Greek officials, but I would assume that the abridged volume used the same data.

There is a web source that provide data on Italian operated POW camps. I will need to see if I still have the URL.
 
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jwsleser

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I haven't found any different numbers in the Greek officials, but i am still working through the volumes.

Here is the link for I campi fascist . The site covers all types of camps including POW. No great way to search for Greek POWS that I know of, one must check each POW camp to see which nationalities were housed at that location. Original documents linked in each individual camp entry.
 

DrG

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Thanks. By the way, the Greek definition of "Prisoners of war (on the battlefield)" is somwhat peculiar: what does it mean?

Anyway, also the total of deaths is quite interesting, because it is rather easy to provide data wich are correct and wrong at the same time: for example, counting only soldiers killed in action and not those died of illness.
 
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