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Background
Avezzano concentration camp was an Italian assembly and detention camp set up in 1916 in Avezzano, Abruzzo, during World War I, immediately after the 1915 Marsica earthquake that almost completely destroyed it, decimating the population. The camp was reserved to about 15,000 prisoners from the Austro-Hungarian army, mainly of CzechâSlovak, Polish, German, and Hungarian nationalities; Romanians, who were gathered in the Romanian Legion of Italy by the end of the conflict, had a garrison and a training camp in Avezzano. Mostly abandoned in 1920, a sector was reused in World War II to house British, Indian and New Zealand prisoners of war.
