Benevolence and Betrayal
Benevolence and Betrayal

Author: Alexander Stille

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-04

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780312421533

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This history of Italy's Jews under the shadow of the Holocaust examines the lives of five Jewish families: the Ovazzas, who propered under Mussolini and whose patriarch became a prominent fascist; the Foas, whose children included both an antifascist activist and a Fascist Party member, the DiVerolis who struggled for survival in the ghetto; the Teglios, one of whom worked with the Catholic Church to save hundreds of Jews; and the Schonheits, who were sent to Buchenwald and Ravensbruck.

The Fascists and the Jews of Italy
The Fascists and the Jews of Italy

Author: Michael A. Livingston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 110702756X

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Describes the history and nature of the Italian Race Laws during the period (1938-43) when Italy was independent of German control.

The Jews in Mussolini's Italy
The Jews in Mussolini's Italy

Author: Michele Sarfatti

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780299217341

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Provides a comprehensive history from the rise of fascism in 1922 to its defeat in 1945. The author uses statistical evidence to document how the Italian social climate changed from relatively just to irredeemably prejudicial. He demonstrates that Rome did not simply follow the lead of Berlin.

The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History
The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History

Author: Renzo De Felice

Publisher: Enigma Books

Published: 2015-11-23

Total Pages: 659

ISBN-13: 0986376418

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My aim was to explain in detail the facts surrounding Fascist anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews in Mussolini's Italy. Too many people in Italy and elsewhere underestimate or deny the tragic fate of European Jewry and anti-Semitism between the two world wars. A few short years ago anti-Semitism appeared defeated and reduced to a tiny group of fanatics. But now it seems to be regaining ground in its more political incarnation, probably the most dangerous one, because next to the religious, social and economic varieties it is the most insidious of all. The author occupies a central position among Italian historians specialized in modern Italy's political history. He broke new ground by first publishing this book in 1961 having obtained special permission to consult the files in the Archives of the Italian Jewish Communities concerning the Fascist regime's persecution of the Jews in Italy from 1938 to 1945. The book's release coincided with the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem that brought the Holocaust to the attention of other historians and to the world public. The English translation of the final 1993 edition was supported by a grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This paperback and electronic book edition is published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy
Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy

Author: Michael R. Ebner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0521762138

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Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy reveals the centrality of violence to Fascist rule, arguing that the Mussolini regime projected its coercive power deeply and diffusely into society through confinement, imprisonment, low-level physical assaults, economic deprivations, intimidation, discrimination, and other everyday forms of coercion. Fascist repression was thus more intense and ideological than previously thought and even shared some important similarities with Nazi and Soviet terror.

Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945
Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945

Author: Joshua D. Zimmerman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-27

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521841016

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The Jews of Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 brings to light the Italian-Jewish experience from the start of Mussolini's prime ministership through the end of the Second World War. Challenging the myth of Italian benevolence during the Fascist period, the authors investigate the treatment of Jews by Italians during the Holocaust, and the native versus foreign roots of Italian fascist anti-Semitism. Each essay in this volume each illustrates a different aspect of Italian Jewry under Fascist and Nazi rule. Areas of inquiry include the role of the Catholic Church with special reference to Pope Pius XII, Mussolini's attitude and anti-Jewish policies leading to the onset of the 1938 Italian racial laws, and the Italian popular reactions to anti-Jewish persecution. Included also is an examination of cover images and articles from the Italian racist newspaper La Difesa della Razza intended to lay bare the influence of the Italian media on the general Italian public.

The Italian Executioners
The Italian Executioners

Author: Simon Levis Sullam

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0691209200

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In this revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, the author presents an account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation