The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-Semites, Wiley Feinstein (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004), 401 pp., 65.00
The Holocaust came to Italy toward the end of 1943 with the German occupation that ensued on the collapse of Mussolini’s Fascist regime. Only 15 percent of the Jewish population perished, among the lowest figures in countries occupied by the Germans. Tens of thousands of Italian and foreign Jews wer...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 518-520 |
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| Summary: | The Holocaust came to Italy toward the end of 1943 with the German occupation that ensued on the collapse of Mussolini’s Fascist regime. Only 15 percent of the Jewish population perished, among the lowest figures in countries occupied by the Germans. Tens of thousands of Italian and foreign Jews were saved by Italians, people whom scholars customarily considered too humane to participate in genocide. Comparative studies typically contrast the “good” Italians (Italiani brava gente), with the “bad” antisemitic Germans. True, Mussolini imposed antisemitic legislation in October 1938, but scholarship conventionally attributed this to the regime, not to the Italians themselves, who were never mobilized around antisemitic platforms. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl030 |