Monday, February 5, 2018

pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K PrabahkarRao


FRANCESCO GIUNTA. ITALIAN FASCIST

Francesco Giunta (21 March 1887 – 8 June 1971) was an Italian Fascist politician. A leading figure in the early years of fascism, he helped to build the movement in several regions of the country and was particularly active in Trieste. During the Second World War he became notorious for his role in occupied Yugoslavia.In February 1943, he succeeded Giuseppe Bastianini as the Governor of Dalmatia. A fervent anti-Yugoslav since the times of his activity in the South Slav-inhabited Julian Marc], Giunta brought a number of his old colleagues from Trieste with himself.[citation needed] His regime became noted for its brutality against the local Croat population, and a fierce repression of the Yugoslav partisan movement present in the area. He was associated with national socialist regime of Mussolini  in 1943.After World War II, Yugoslavia demanded the extradition of Giunta, so that he could be tried for war crimes committed in Yugoslavia.[citation needed] The Yugoslav demand was rejected by both Italy and the Allies.[citation needed]

He was involved in the 1947 Dumini trial, which investigated the murder of Giacomo Matteotti. He was not charged in relation to this but indicted on further, unrelated charges, the same year.[10] Giunta settled in Rome, where he died in 1971.

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