Italians--Great Britain--Forced removal and internment, 1940-1945

found: Work cat.: 2006462848: Chappell, C. Island of barbed wire, 2005:p. 22 (Winston Churchill decreed on June 11, 1940 that all adult male Italians were to be interned immediately; the wholesale rounding up began on June 25) p. 182-183 (the final group of aliens was released on Sept. 5, 1945)

found: Experiencing war as the enemy other: Italian Scottish experience in World War II, 2011:p. 2 ("Churchill ordered that all male Italians between the ages of sixteen and seventy who had been resident in Britain for less than twenty years and all those listed on MI5's list should be interned. Under Defence Regulation 18B, 600 British subjects of Italian origin, including some women, were also detained; around one-third were from Scotland. Internees were deported either to the Isle of Man or the Dominions") p. 3 ("Throughout this period, thousands of second-generation Italians, as British subjects, were subject to military conscription and had enlisted in the British forces") (OCoLC)1009300992

found: Internment during the Second World War: a comparative study of Great Britain and the USA, 2017:p. 33 ("When Winston Churchill famously gave the order to Collar the Lot in June 1940, internment had already begun. Germans and Austrians had already been arrested due to Fifth Column fears... from June, Italians were added to that number") (OCoLC)978275268

found: Barbed wire on the Isle of Man: the wartime British internment of Jews, 1980:p. 139 ("Perhaps they were taken to an internment camp. We now know from the press that people with German, Austrian, or Italian passports, no matter what their religion or political views, were interned in camps, some of them in England and some on the Isle of Man") (OCoLC)1028657569

found: UK National Archives, WWW site viewed January 22, 2021Blog ("Resident Italians were also considered for internment following Italy's declaration of war on Britain on 10 June 1940. Some 4,000 resident Italians who were known to be members of the Italian Fascist Party and others aged between 16 and 70 who had lived in the UK for fewer than 20 years were ordered to be interned") - https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/collar-lot-britains-policy-internment-second-world-war/