The Italian Executioners

Sullam, Simon Levis; Kertzer, David I.; Smyth, Oona; Patane, Claudia

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“…The early literature downplayed the role of Italians in the deportation and murder of Jews (De Felice, 1961;Zuccotti, 1987). Recent studies have revised this historiography, emphasizing the involvement of Italian forces, Fascist sympathizers and the general population in the arrest and deportation of Jews (Sarfatti, 2006;Levis Sullam, 2018). In Table 10, we look at the relationship between local support for Fascists in the 1920s and the deportation of Jews from the same area two decades later.…”

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War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration

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“…How did the almost omnipresent rhetoric of 'Italians as good people', whose antisemitism was supposedly only contingent on their alliance with Nazism, slowly become eroded by a deeper awareness of fascist antisemitism and of 'Italian executioners'? 7 And more specifically, what part did cultural restitution play in the struggle to come to terms with the past?…”

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Cultural Restitution and the ‘Rediscovery’ of the Holocaust in Italy, 1989–2003

Gaudenzi

2023

J Mod Eur Hist

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This article illustrates the role played by restitution in bringing about the first substantial changes in the political and public awareness of Italy's anti-Jewish persecutions after the end of the Cold War. More specifically, it analyses how political discourses changed between the years 1989 and 2003 vis-à-vis restitution campaigns on one side and historiographical advances on the other. This proves particularly relevant in the case of post-war Italy, which was exceptional in turning the restitution of national collections into a moment of cathartic rebirth while whitewashing - or all together forgetting - fascism's persecution of its Jewish and colonial subjects. As the article demonstrates, the conflation of international and domestic factors played a crucial role in pushing Italy (as well as several other countries) to start confronting – albeit partially – its antisemitic past. Restitution constituted only a piece of this puzzle, but a crucial one. It afforded the opportunity to document the involvement of many Italians in the persecution of their fellow citizens and to highlight the state's responsibility for the deportations. Furthermore, it provided an international platform for voicing some of the most explicit admissions of accountability, which had until that point found little if any space in the domestic realm. Restitution thereby represented one of the most visible ways for Jewish communities to exercise their newly found political weight to foster the long-awaited recognition of Italy's persecutory behaviour.

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Short- and Long-Term Consequences of the Racial Laws and the Myth of the Good Italian

Mazzini

2022

Languages of Discrimination and Racism in Twentieth-Century Italy

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The Italian Executioners

Cited by 7 publications

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War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration

War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration

Cultural Restitution and the ‘Rediscovery’ of the Holocaust in Italy, 1989–2003

Short- and Long-Term Consequences of the Racial Laws and the Myth of the Good Italian

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