Anti-Semitism: Original Ideals Of Mussolini And Fascism
Alessandro Nobile
Dallam School
History Extended essay
A possible misunderstanding or exaggerated judgement of Fascist Italy
To what extent was anti-Semitism part of the original ideals of Mussolini and Fascism?
Abstract
(300 words)
In Italy and other territories under Italian control not one Jew died at the hands of the fascist state or was deported to death or labour camps until 1943, when Allied occupation of the south of Italy occurred (THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM, 2003). In September 1943 with the fall of the Fascist rule in the South and the Nazi occupation of Northern Italy, the first deportations to Death Camps of the Jewish population were carried out in Italy, in previously Italian controlled territories and also around …show more content…
In fact, many of the highest authorities in the country were Jewish, also covered political positions in the fascist party like Ettore Ovazza, who also started a Jewish fascist newspaper “La Nostra Bandiera”. Many participated in the March on Rome and were strong believers in the Fascist regime, strong patriots. Mussolini said regarding Jews and their role in Italian social-political structure “Anti-Semitism does not exist in Italy ... Italians of Jewish birth have shown themselves good citizens, and they fought bravely in the war. Many of them occupy leading positions in the universities, in the army, in the banks” (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
The novelist Giorgio Bassani, born in Ferrara persecuted under the fascist regime for his homosexual tendencies, in his novel “The drama of an assimilated Jew” gives one of the most judgemental views on how the Jewish population was able to avoid the increase of anti-Semitic in fascist Italy by collaborating with the government and to the extent where compromising their culture was a wide spread ideal in the Jewish society and not only in …show more content…
With this I do not want to justify the actions of Mussolini and the fascist state, because they imposed a state of control and terror which with or without anti-Semitism did not offer many possibilities of freedom to the people, it used to its own advantages many things like racism and its theories to justify its invasion of Abyssinia and it applied the racial laws against the Jews so to ensure a stronger alliance with Nazi
Dallam School
History Extended essay
A possible misunderstanding or exaggerated judgement of Fascist Italy
To what extent was anti-Semitism part of the original ideals of Mussolini and Fascism?
Abstract
(300 words)
In Italy and other territories under Italian control not one Jew died at the hands of the fascist state or was deported to death or labour camps until 1943, when Allied occupation of the south of Italy occurred (THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM, 2003). In September 1943 with the fall of the Fascist rule in the South and the Nazi occupation of Northern Italy, the first deportations to Death Camps of the Jewish population were carried out in Italy, in previously Italian controlled territories and also around …show more content…
In fact, many of the highest authorities in the country were Jewish, also covered political positions in the fascist party like Ettore Ovazza, who also started a Jewish fascist newspaper “La Nostra Bandiera”. Many participated in the March on Rome and were strong believers in the Fascist regime, strong patriots. Mussolini said regarding Jews and their role in Italian social-political structure “Anti-Semitism does not exist in Italy ... Italians of Jewish birth have shown themselves good citizens, and they fought bravely in the war. Many of them occupy leading positions in the universities, in the army, in the banks” (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
The novelist Giorgio Bassani, born in Ferrara persecuted under the fascist regime for his homosexual tendencies, in his novel “The drama of an assimilated Jew” gives one of the most judgemental views on how the Jewish population was able to avoid the increase of anti-Semitic in fascist Italy by collaborating with the government and to the extent where compromising their culture was a wide spread ideal in the Jewish society and not only in …show more content…
With this I do not want to justify the actions of Mussolini and the fascist state, because they imposed a state of control and terror which with or without anti-Semitism did not offer many possibilities of freedom to the people, it used to its own advantages many things like racism and its theories to justify its invasion of Abyssinia and it applied the racial laws against the Jews so to ensure a stronger alliance with Nazi