The fate of the Maltese in Nazi-occupied Corfu

Abstract

From 1815 to 1864, the islands west and south of the Greek mainland, including Corfu, formed an independent State called the United States of the Ionian Islands, under the protectorate of the UK. The British brought Maltese people to work as stonemasons in Corfu - initially because they were skilled in working with Maltese stone that had been imported for the new British Governor's residence, known as the Palace, and for other planned representative buildings. After the Italians, these Maltese became the second largest group of Catholics living in Corfu.