The Mystery of Italian Tunisia

Some maps claim Italy officially possessed Tunisia during World War II as a part of its empire. But there doesn't seem to be any evidence of that.
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Music used: "George Street Shuffle" by Kevin MacLeod

Sources:
Technically this video is me trying to find sources confirming Italian controlled Tunisia, but here are several interesting and useful sources I looked at for this video otherwise:
Brondino, Michele. La stampa italiana in Tunisia: storia e società, 1838-1956. Italy: Jaca Book, 1998.
Knox, M. (1986). Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Lewis, Mary Dewhurst. “Geographies of Power: The Tunisian Civic Order, Jurisdictional Politics, and Imperial Rivalry in the Mediterranean, 1881–1935.” The Journal of Modern History 80, no. 4 (2008): 791–830. https://doi.org/10.1086/591111.
Peterson, Terrence. “The ‘Jewish Question’ and the ‘Italian Peril’: Vichy, Italy, and the Jews of Tunisia, 1940-2.” Journal of Contemporary History 50, no. 2 (2015): 234–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43697373.- Shorrock, William I. “The Tunisian Question in French Policy toward Italy, 1881-1940.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 16, no. 4 (1983): 631–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/218270.