Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Rassegna Mensile di Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
58,3 (1992) 1-36
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Rejects the common opinion (shared by Renzo De Felice) that the racial legislation in fascist Italy was a one-time political measure with no deep roots in the past or subsequent consequences. States that it is not enough to stress popular resistance against the Germans and blame the Nazi occupation. There is a need to search for the roots of racism and antisemitism in Italy in the fascist cultural concept of "coscienza di razza, " and to go back farther to the "eugenics" policies of the 19th century, to the longtime Catholic obsession with a Jewish conspiracy, to the belief in need for segregation and an end to Jewish conversion to Catholicism.
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