Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
38,1 (2004) 1-17
Keywords:
Mussolini, Benito,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Since Renzo De Felice's "Storia degli ebrei italiani sotto il fascismo" was published in 1961, a myth has evolved in historiography which holds that most Italians, including some members of the regime, opposed fascism's antisemitic turn of 1938 and helped Jews both during the last years of Mussolini's rule and under the Nazi occupation in 1943-45. More recent research has stressed that notwithstanding remarkable exceptions, Italians - both inside and outside the fascist hierarchy - supported antisemitism and actively participated in the discrimination, persecution, and deportation of Jews in the prewar and war years. Far from being imported from Germany, antisemitism had a tradition of its own in Italy, and some of Mussolini's anti-Jewish pronouncements and measures predated not only 1938, but even the Nazi takeover in Germany. After the war, Italian Jews had difficulty in recuperating the properties confiscated by the fascist regime.
DOI:
10.1080/0031322032000185550
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