| Second Italo-Ethiopian War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Interwar Period | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
Material support: Germany[1] | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Benito Mussolini Victor Emmanuel III Emilio De Bono Pietro Badoglio Rodolfo Graziani.svg){kind=small} Hamid Idris Awate Olol Dinle |  Haile Selassie I Imru Haile Selassie Kassa Haile Darge Seyum Mangasha Mulugeta Yeggazu † Desta Damtew Nasibu Emmanual (WIA) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Approx. 500,000 combatants (Approx. 100,000 mobilized) Approx. 595 aircraft[2] Approx. 795 tanks[2] | c. 800,000 combatants (c. 330,000 mobilized) 13 aircraft 4 tanks and 7 armored cars | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 10,000 killed1 (est. May 1936)[3] 44,000 wounded (est. May 1936)[4] 9,555 killed2 (est. 1936–1940)[5] 144,000 sick and wounded (est. 1936–1940)[6] Total: c. 208,000 killed or wounded. | c. 275,000 combatants killed c. 500,000 wounded Total: c. 775,000 combatants and civilians killed or wounded (1935–1940).[nb 1] 7% of Ethiopia's population killed in War Crimes against civilians or several hundreds of thousands[8] | ||||||||
1Official pro-Fascist Italian figures are around 3,000, which Alberto Sbacchi considers deflated.[3] | |||||||||
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ a b Alberto Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire: Towards an Enumeration of Italian Casualties in Ethiopia 1935–1940", in ed. Harold G. Marcus, Ethiopianist Notes, vol. II, No. 2, p.37.
- ^ Sbacchi, "The Price of Empire", p.36.
- ^ a b Sbacchi, The Price of Empire, p.43.
- ^ Sbacchi, The Price of Empire, p.38.
- ^ Angelo Del Boca, The Ethiopian War 1935–1941 (1965)
- ^ Sullivan, Barry "More than meets the eye: the Ethiopian War and the Origins of the Second World War" pages 178-203 from The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians, London: Routledge, 1999 page 188.
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