ABSTRACT
The Northern regions of the peninsula and its larger islands— geographical areas that in 1940 were thought to be particularly involved in military operations— remained almost completely off limits to the relocation of camps by the Ministry of the Interior and, initially, to the identification of sites destined for internamento libero since they could not be in areas of strategic importance or subject to enemy fire. Starting in the early months of 1942, when the number of the internees increased, the regime in the camps became stricter. The geographical distribution of the concentration camps that the Military authority, the Special Public Safety Inspectorate for Venezia Giulia and some Prefect set up in the Peninsula was very different from the “regulamentary” network created by the Ministry of the Interior. A distinctive trait of the camps for Slavs was the lodging of the internees in improvised tent cities.
