Clio among the Camicie Nere

Angelini, Margherita

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“…32 The escalation into civil war stemmed from the state rupture that accompanied the fall of Mussolini, the armistice of Pietro Badoglio and his government with the Allied forces in September of 1943, occupation of Italy by Nazi Germany, the creation of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI, the Italian Social Republic), the landing of the Allied armies in the south and military submission to the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories. 33 Italy was divided into two zones: the south, under Badoglio, with continuity for the monarchy, and Mussolini's RSI in the north, which inherited the legitimacy of Fascism and its institutions. As in France, Greece, or Yugoslavia, a world war plus occupation coincided with an internal struggle between fascists and anti-fascists for legitimacy and sovereignty.…”

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Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

Rodrigo

2019

Fascist Warfare, 1922–1945

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Fascist Italy developed a policy of extreme violence in its colonial practices, in the context of the world war and occupation (in the Mediterranean, the Balkans and Russia), and in civil wars. Nonetheless, Mussolinian Fascism has survived media scrutiny rather well, a circumstance paradoxically assisted by the alliance it forged with Nazi Germany in the Spanish Civil War. Reduction ad hitlerum of the genocides during the Second World War has been a significant factor in glossing over Italian culpability in Africa, the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Italian war crimes and crimes against humanity during Mussolini's regime range from poison gas bombing in Ethiopia to the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, and to the 'marvellous' Italian aviation actions, as Mussolini put it, in the bombing of Republican civilians in Spain. 1 It is not easy to find a historical analysis that connects these bellicose practices with the nature of the Italian Fascist regime, with its militarized foreign policy, with fascism as the great political praxis of interwar Europe, or with its violent and-in the most extreme case-eliminationist aim. In this chapter, by analysing two cases of Fascist participation in an intrastate war, we will examine how the concepts of civil war and fascist war are interrelated. We look first at Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil War,

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Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

Rodrigo

2019

Fascist Warfare, 1922–1945

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“…One indication that the authorities did not ignore the phenomenon is a report written on 5 March 1949 by the police chief of Rome, Polito, who stopped the circulation of a leaflet published by the pro-fascist magazine Pensiero nazionale on the basis that it clearly offered an apology of fascism 75 by praising the Charter of Verona, the RSI's programmatic manifesto. 76 Polito also targeted another fascist magazine, Illustrato, which was edited by Bruno Spampanato. Its issue of 22 May 1949 included a transcription of the notorious speech by the Duce at Milan's Teatro Lirico, to which Polito reacted by summoning the editor and threatening to suppress the newspaper.…”

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Fighting against ‘Apology of Fascism’: Origins and Contradictions of the Italian Approach to Militant Democracy

Martini

2023

J Mod Eur Hist

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Although Italy was one of the first European countries to tolerate the existence of a fascist party, the democratic governments of its immediate postwar engaged in a genuine and important reflection on the means to counter the re-emergence of fascism. Thus Italy too, like its European counterparts, sought to conceive of itself as a militant democracy. This article aims to illuminate its efforts and its approach, and also to cast light on the evident limits and contradictions. Looking at the Italian case while observing how other European countries tackled the re-emergence of fascism in the same period will make clear the intrinsic difficulties of turning a democracy into a militant one only a short time after the fall of an authoritarian regime and in the aftermath of an inevitably problematic transition.

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Clio among the Camicie Nere

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Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

Fighting against ‘Apology of Fascism’: Origins and Contradictions of the Italian Approach to Militant Democracy

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