IN JULY 1943, AFTER A SERIIES OF MIILIITARY DEFEATS and amid growing domestic unrest, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini was deposed from power and arrested. The new Italian government, headed ...by Marshal Pietro Badoglio, remained formally allied with the Germans, but also secretly began negotiations with the Allies, who were quickly approaching the Italian mainland from the south. Although the Badoglio government did not undo the system of anti-Semitic measures put in place during the previous years, Jews in Italy were nonetheless hopeful that their trials would soon be over. This was not to be. On September 8, 1943, the
At the foot of the front.: Proceedings of the conference “Antifascism among young people and the experience of war,” Perugia June 23, 2005
In calce al front.: Atti del convegno L'Antifascismo tra i ...giovani e l'esperienza della guerra, Perugia 23 giugno 2005
In calce al front.: Atti del convegno L'Antifascismo tra i giovani e l'esperienza della guerra, Perugia 23 giugno 2005
As a case study in wartime resistance, Italy proves to be unique in a number of ways. First, the existence of the Fascist regime in Italy, and its alliance with Hitler, meant that armed resistance ...against the Nazis began only in September 1943, when the armistice with the Allies was signed, and when Germany invaded its former ally. Indeed, after September 8, 1943, Italy was essentially split in half, with the Allies controlling southern Italy and the Axis controlling the North. This divide proved fateful for Italian Jews, who lived almost entirely in central and northern Italy, and who regained
LAURENCE WEINBAUM. A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government, 1936-1939. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. ...xiii, 295.
DAVID ENGEL. Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. x, 317.
Schindler, a minor industrialist, sheltered more than 1000 Jews during the Holocaust. This would seem to be a record of virtue. Or is it? If Schindler's deeds are moral reality, the consensus in ...contemporary moral theory is the poorer for being unable to recognise them. (Abstract amended)
