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Before the 1914 —18 war, Italy had long coveted the part of the Austrian Crown Land of Tyrol lying to the south of the Brenner Pass, comprising today’s Italian provinces of South Tyrol and Trento. It wished to unite the almost entirely Italian-speaking population of Trento with the rest of Italy, and to gain the strong military barrier against the German-speaking world that the Brenner frontier would provide. Having entered the war on the winning side, Italian troops took over not only Trento but also South Tyrol, where 86 per cent of the population of 250,000 were German-speaking and only 4 per cent Ladin and 8 per cent Italian.1 In 1920, South Tyrol was formally incorporated into Italy, without a plebiscite to obtain the consent of the population.
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A.E. Alcock, The History of the South Tyrol Question (London: Michael Joseph, 1970), p. 496. (Hereinafter History).
A. E. Alcock, Geschichte der Südtirolfrage — Südtirol seit dem Paket 1970–1980 (Vienna: Braumüller, 1982), p. 174.
Autonome Provinz Bozen-Südtirol, Südtirol-Handbuch (Bolzano: Athesia, 1988), pp.51–63 (hereinafter Südtirol-Handbuch).
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Janke, P. (1992). Terrorism in South Tyrol. In: Janke, P. (eds) Terrorism and Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12452-7_1
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