Addis Ababa was thrown into turmoil when, in May 1936, Italian artillery thunder heralded a new wave of Fascist expansion. Some seven months after Italian forces had invaded the Ethiopian Empire, the capital fell on 5 May and was soon incorporated into the new colonial territory “Africa Orientale Italiana.” Amid this tense historical situation, Carlo Alberto Viterbo, an Italian Jewish lawyer from Florence and a leading figure in the Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche italiane, arrived in Ethiopia.
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