Language:
English
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Maghreb Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,1 (2015) 82-94
Keywords:
Italy. History World War, 1939-1945
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Yugoslavia History Axis occupation, 1941-1945
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Tunisia History 20th century
Abstract:
The relationship of the Italian military authorities with Jews in occupied Yugoslavian Dalmatia (littoral Croatia and Montenegro) followed the same path as in Greece and southern France: starting off with the intention to protect Italian Jews, they extended that protection to other Jewish communities. The army's behavior in Tunisia was solely directed at protecting the Italian Jewish community. This protection was part of the rivalry between Italy and Vichy France over control of Tunisia. The application of the Vichy racial laws to the Italian Jews in Tunisia threatened to transfer the large amount of property held by this small community to French ownership; thus, the Italian authorities were interested in considering the Italian Jews in Tunisia as part of the Italian community in the country. Despite the conspicuous neglect of the indigenous Jews, during the six-month German-Italian occupation of Tunisia in 1943, the Italian authorities displayed a humanitarian attitude toward Jewish workers, whom they assembled in labor camps, as they did in Dalmatia.
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