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Italian Community in World War 2
Story of the Italian community of the south Wales valleys. They were interned as enemy aliens in the Second World War(after Mussolini declared war in 1940). Some were sent to Canada on the Arandora Star in 1940, which was then sunk by a German U-Boat in mid-Atlantic.
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