Italian soldier standing before a comrade, executed for desertion, September 1917.

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Although the original caption states the executed soldier as Italian, it is uncertain whether he was actually an Austro-Hungarian. It could also be an Italian soldier enduring some form of field punishment lighter than execution.

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The soldier in front also looks more like an Austro-Hungarian than an Italian soldier, though all sources for this photograph I was able to find stated he was Italian. Perhaps he was one of the many Italian-natives in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

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On September 28, 1915 Italian Chief-of-Staff Luigi Cadorna issued the following statement: "Discipline is the spiritual flame of victory; the most disciplined troops, not the best trained, win. The commanding officer has the sacred duty to immediately execute the recalcitrant and the cowards".

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During the First World War over 170,000 Italian soldiers were convicted for military offences such as desertion, cowardice, disobedience, self-wounding, insubordinate language towards a superior officer, or sleeping on sentry duty. Over 100,000 for these were charged with desertion.

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Of the 170,000 convictions, 15,345 were given life sentences prison and 4,028 were sentenced to death. 750 of these executions were carried out; 391 for desertion, 164 for surrendering or disbanding, 154 for indiscipline, 21 for espionage or treason, 12 for violence, 5 for self-wounding, 2 for greed and 1 for sexual offences.

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This puts Italy at the second highest number of executions of the warring nations in the First World War, with Austria-Hungary on the top with 1,148 executions. 


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