Balilla
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The Balilla is a box camera for 4.5x6cm exposures, made by Zeiss Ikon for supply to the Italian Fascist boys' club, the Opera Nazionale Balilla (active 1926-37), named after a Genoese boy who supposedly began a revolt against Austro-Hungarian occupation of Genoa in the eighteenth century. The camera is very similar indeed to the Baldur used by the Hitler Youth, except for the name pressed into the metal of the lens surround.