They fought in the hope of an Italian victory with the help of Rommel in Egypt and in the Mediterranean that would originate a possible return of the Axis powers in East Africa.
[5] Dainelli was famous as one of the few women who actively participated in the Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia after the East African campaign.
[6] After the successful sabotage she was quickly captured with her brother Giulio, and interrogated by the Allied authorities in Ethiopia before eventually being released.
Torture and harsh detention seriously affected her health so much that the British decided to transfer her to isolation in the concentration camp of Dire Daua from where, seven months later, in the summer of 1943, a little restored, she was repatriated on a white ship and hospitalized in Florence.
[9] Main colonial governors: Agenore Frangipani; Guglielmo Nasi; Enrico Cerulli; Pietro Gazzera; Luigi Frusci; Alessandro Pirzio Biroli