ABSTRACT
As in many other belligerent countries (though with different timing and intensity), also in Italy foreigners of enemy nationality, Germans in particular, were subjected during the First World War to restrictions on their personal freedom, seizure of their property and, in some cases, violence. This article reconstructs the treatment reserved by the Italian state for ‘enemy aliens’, and does so by focusing on the enactment and implementation of economic measures against them. The first part deals with the national and international context within which the Italian policies towards enemy aliens developed. The second part, devoted to the case of Naples, seeks to determine the impact of these policies on the lives of enemy aliens and their short-and medium-period consequences.2
