Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken
Angaben zur Quelle:
83 (2003) 436-444
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
Contends that Mussolini's anti-Jewish measures were serious, that they were taken independently of those in Nazi Germany and in some respects - e.g. the exclusion of Jewish children from public schools - even anticipated them. Of the countries that passed anti-Jewish laws before the war, only Germany and Italy defined Jews biologically. Mussolini's aim was to create an "Aryan" state free of Jews, but by emigration, not extermination. When the war and immigration restrictions made it impossible for Jews to emigrate, the Jews were segregated, first in remote places and later in internment camps. Mussolini carried out this policy, as he did all his policies without the use of violence; but there are no grounds for the claim that the anti-Jewish laws were not fully and firmly enforced. Moreover, all sectors of the population supported the laws or else did not protest.
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