Along with carrying out a complete renewal of the Albanian state and political structures, the Italians showed great commitment to excluding from every area of public life all those who were considered hostile to the new regime. Between 1939 and 1943 the Italians extended to Albania their legislation on police confinement and founded in Tirana a confinement committee on the Italian model. Several Albanians, among them a great number of intellectuals, teachers, students were confined to small towns in Northern and Central Italy; just few of them were sent to camps or towns in Albania and only the most dangerous individuals were sent to the colonies on the Italian islands. However, calculating the actual number of the Albanians who were sentenced for political reasons seems very difficult, especially from the end of 1941, because of the fragmented nature of the relevant documents and the different kinds of coercive measure that were taken.
