The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010

The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010
Author: Robert Gordon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804782636

The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many thousands of Italians—Jews and others—were deported to concentration camps throughout Europe. After the war, Italian culture produced a vast array of stories, images, and debate through which it came to terms with the Holocaust's difficult legacy. Gordon probes a rich range of cultural material as he paints a picture of this shared encounter with the darkest moment of twentieth-century history. His book explores aspects of Italian national identity and memory, offering a new model for analyzing the interactions between national and international images of the Holocaust.

The Italian Executioners

The Italian Executioners
Author: Simon Levis Sullam
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691209200

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

The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy

The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy
Author: Wiley Feinstein
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838639887

This book studies the persecution of Italian Jews during the Fascist period in relation to the Italian cultural tradition. It shows that Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws and Italian support for Hitler's war on the Jews stem directly from beliefs deeply embedded in Italian culture. After studying anti-Judaic characterizations in the Christian tradition and representations of Jews by Dante and other Medieval and Renaissance authors, the book shows how the anti-Semitic tradition became reinvigorated in the nineteenth century. cultural figures in the period between 1900 and 1940: the writer Giovanni Papini, the Catholic educational leader Agostino Gemelli, and the artist and critic Ardengo Soffici. The book then examines Mussolini's specific anti-Semitic policies and argues that the Italian cultural system contributed to generating the evil that led to the Holocaust. Wiley Feinstein is Associate Professor of Italian at Loyola University Chicago.

Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism

Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism
Author: Alessandro Carrieri
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030529312

This book is the first collection of multi-disciplinary research on the experience of Italian-Jewish musicians and composers in Fascist Italy. Drawing together seven diverse essays from both established and emerging scholars across a range of fields, this book examines multiple aspects of this neglected period of music history, including the marginalization and expulsion of Jewish musicians and composers from Italian theatres and conservatories after the 1938–39 Race Laws, and their subsequent exile and persecution. Using a variety of critical perspectives and innovative methodological approaches, these essays reconstruct and analyze the impact that the Italian Race Laws and Fascist Italy’s musical relations with Nazi Germany had on the lives and works of Italian Jewish composers from 1933 to 1945. These original contributions on relatively unresearched aspects of historical musicology offer new insight into the relationship between the Fascist regime and music.

Mussolini and Fascism

Mussolini and Fascism
Author: John Patrick Diggins
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400868068

Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' analysis of America's reaction to an ideological phenomenon abroad reveals, he proposes, the darker side of American political values and assumptions. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Missing Italian Nuremberg

The Missing Italian Nuremberg
Author: M. Battini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2007-08-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230607454

This book explores how the trial of the entire military command of the Nazi power structure in Italy, prepared by the Allies following the Nuremberg mode, came to be replaced by a few contradictory trials of very minor significance. This resulted in an enormous historical misrepresentation of the Nazi occupation of Italy.

Mussolini's Theatre

Mussolini's Theatre
Author: Patricia Gaborik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108830595

A vividly written portrait of Benito Mussolini, whose passion for the theatre profoundly shaped his ideology and actions as head of fascist Italy This consistently illuminating book transforms our understanding of fascism as a whole, and will have strong appeal to readers in both theatre studies and modern Italian history.

Hitler's Slaves

Hitler's Slaves
Author: Alexander von Plato
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1845459903

During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working for private companies and public agencies in industry, administration and agriculture. In addition, there were 4.6 million prisoners of war and 1.7 million concentration camp prisoners who were either subjected to forced labour in concentration or similar camps or were ‘rented out’ or sold by the SS. While there are numerous publications on forced labour in National Socialist Germany during World War II, this publication combines a historical account of events with the biographies and memories of former forced labourers from twenty-seven countries, offering a comparative international perspective.

Italians & The Holocaust

Italians & The Holocaust
Author: Susan Zuccotti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1987-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN:

Examines fascist policy and the fate of Italian Jews during the Holocaust, based on survivors' accounts and documents. Gives a detailed account of effects of the 1938 racial laws which were initiated by Mussolini in order to please Germany. During the war, refugees were interned and antisemitism increased. The Italian army protected Jewish refugees in areas under their control. With the German occupation in 1943, the Jews of Rome and other towns were deported. Asserts that Pope Pius XII had advance knowledge of the Rome roundup and failed to protest. 85% of Italy's Jews survived with the help of Italians. Those who died were betrayed and arrested by Italians or murdered by fanatical fascists. Several factors influenced the high survival rate: the Holocaust began late, the Jews had few identifying characteristics and had close contacts with non-Jews, lack of an antisemitic tradition, and Italian contempt for the authorities and their propaganda.