{"id":1464351,"date":"2022-05-04T21:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T01:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464351"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T01:44:40","slug":"fact-check-does-this-picture-show-italian-soldiers-surrendering-to-the-ethiopian-army-in-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-picture-show-italian-soldiers-surrendering-to-the-ethiopian-army-in-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Picture Show Italian Soldiers Surrendering To The Ethiopian Army In 1896?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-picture-show-italian-soldiers-surrendering-to-the-ethiopian-army-in-1896%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=164821315924764&#038;set=pb.100071906905947.-2207520000..&#038;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows Italian troops surrendering to the Ethiopian army after a failed invasion in 1896.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo shows German troops being captured by American forces in April 1945.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Italian army lost the Battle of Adwa to the Ethiopian army in north-central Ethiopia in 1896, effectively thwarting Italy\u2019s efforts to build an empire on the continent, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Battle-of-Adwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britannica<\/a>. Italy would later successfully invade and annex Ethiopia in 1936, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Italo-Ethiopian-War-1935-1936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online encyclopedia<\/a> states.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=164821315924764&#038;set=pb.100071906905947.-2207520000..&#038;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a>, which has been shared over 3,600 times, shows a group of soldiers standing with their hands in the air while an armed black soldier stands in front of them, looking at the camera. \u201cIta|ia\u03c0\u2122 troops surrendered to Ethiopian army after they were defeated and humi|!ated in a fai|ed attempt to invaded (sic) Ethiopia in 1896,\u201d the post\u2019s caption claims, in part.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was taken nearly 50 years after the failed invasion. A reverse image search revealed the picture is from 1945 and features an American soldier guarding captured German soldiers. The photo can be viewed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.archives.gov\/id\/535840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Archives Catalogue<\/a>, titled \u201cA Negro soldier of the 12th Armored Division stands guard over a group of Nazi prisoners captured in the surrounding German forest.\u201d The picture also appears in the archives of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/gallery\/african-american-soldiers-during-wwii?series=43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Lenches, the executive director of the 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum in Abilene, Texas, told <a href=\"https:\/\/factcheck.afp.com\/image-world-war-2-shows-american-soldier-guarding-group-nazi-prisoners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFP<\/a> the American soldier pictured is Private Jesse Barkley of D Company, 17th Armored Infantry Battalion, 12th Armored Division. Barkley was \u201cpositively identified\u201d in 2011 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2009\/11\/27\/walter-herbert-gaines-95highly-decorated-world-war-ii-veteran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walter Gaines<\/a>, who served in the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion, according to Lenches. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/24\/fact-check-video-turkish-army-palestinian-territory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show The Turkish Army In Palestinian Territory?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 12th Armored Division, nicknamed the \u201cHellcats,\u201d was crossing the Rhine and fighting their way eastward through Germany at the time, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/warfarehistorynetwork.com\/2019\/01\/20\/herrlisheim-what-became-of-the-12th-armored-divisions-lost-battalion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warfare History Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows Italian troops surrendering to the Ethiopian army after a failed invasion in 1896.Verdict: False The photo shows German troops being captured by American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1481650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}