Скачать или смотреть What Italian Commanders Witnessed When African Troops Stormed Gondar — and Italy Lost Its Empire

By late 1941, Italy’s East African Empire was collapsing. Cut off from reinforcements, surrounded by Allied forces, and isolated in the Ethiopian highlands, Italian commanders believed their remaining stronghold at Gondar could still hold. What they did not expect was who would deliver the final blow.

When African troops advanced on Gondar, Italian officers watched in disbelief.

These were soldiers they had long underestimated — units drawn from across Africa, fighting under Allied command. Many Italian commanders had dismissed them as incapable of coordinated, large-scale assault. That illusion shattered in days.

African infantry moved with speed through rough terrain European units struggled to cross. Artillery positions were overrun. Defensive lines collapsed faster than intelligence reports predicted. Communication breakdowns spread panic through Italian headquarters as African troops pressed forward relentlessly.

From observation posts and command bunkers, Italian officers recorded something they had never planned for: discipline, tactical coordination, and battlefield confidence. Gondar — the symbolic heart of Italy’s African empire — was falling, not to a European army, but to the very people imperial ideology had claimed were inferior.

When the final surrender came, it marked more than a military defeat. It signaled the end of Italy’s colonial empire in East Africa.
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This documentary reveals the rarely told perspective from inside Italian command posts during the Battle of Gondar. Drawing from war diaries, Allied after-action reports, and postwar Italian accounts, it exposes how racism and arrogance blinded commanders — and how African troops reshaped the outcome of the campaign.

Gondar was not just lost.
An empire was.

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