Avezzano concentration camp was an Italian assembly and detention camp set up in 1916 in the Abruzzo city of the same name during World War I , immediately after the 1915 Marsica earthquake that almost completely destroyed it decimating the population . The detention camp was reserved to about prisoners from the Austro-Hungarian army , mainly of Czech – Slovak , Polish , German , and Hungarian nationalities ; Romanians , who were gathered in the Romanian Legion of Italy by the end of the conflict , had a garrison and a training camp in Avezzano . Mostly abandoned in 1920 , a sector was reused in World War II to house Indian , English , New Zealand , and Pakistani war prisoners
1915 Marsica earthquake
1915 Avezzano earthquake
Avezzano concentration camp