War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948examines this transitional period in the province of Arezzo by detailing the daily experiences of civilians through the traumas of war and the ...difficulties of recovery.
"Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10 September 1943 to the liberation of the city on 28 April 1945, Gobetti recorded an almost daily account ...of events, sentiments, and personalities, in a cryptic English only she could understand. Italian senator and philosopher Benedetto Croce encouraged Ada to convert her notes into a book. Published by Giulio Einaudi editore in 1956, it won the Premio Prato, an annual prize for a work inspired by the Italian Resistance (Resistenza). From a political and military point of view, the Partisan Diary provides firsthand knowledge of how the partisans in Piedmont fought, what obstacles they encountered, and who joined the struggle against the Nazis and the Fascists. The mountainous terrain and long winters of the Alpine regions (the site of many of their battles) and the ever-present threat of reprisals by German occupiers and their fascist partners exacerbated problems of organization among the various partisan groups. So arduous was their fight, that key military events--Italy's declaration of war on Germany, the fall of Rome, and the Allied landings on D-Day--appear in the diary as remote and almost unrelated incidents. Ada Gobetti writes of the heartbreak of mothers who lost their sons or watched them leave on dangerous missions of sabotage, relating it to worries about her own son Paolo. She reflects on the relationship between anti-fascist thought of the 1920s, in particular the ideas of her husband, Piero Gobetti, and the Italian resistance movement (Resistenza) in which she and her son were participating. While the Resistenza represented a culmination of more than twenty years of anti-fascist activity for Ada, it also helped illuminate the exceptional talents, needs, and rights of Italian women, more than one hundred thousand of whom participated"--
Le visits home dei soldati italo-americani durante la Campagna d’Italia (1943-1945). Tra turismo di guerra, homecoming e diaspora tourism Francesco Fusi, si è laureato in Scienze Storiche presso l’Università di Firenze e ha conseguito il Dottorato di ricerca in Storia presso l’Università di Pisa. Tra i suoi principali ambiti di studio vi sono la storia politica ed elettorale dell’Italia contemporanea, l’antifascismo, la Resistenza e la Seconda guerra mondiale. Collabora e ha collaborato con l’Istituto Storico Toscano della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea ed è vincitore del Franklin Research Grant (2017-2018) dell’American Philosophical Society di Philadelphia. Tra le sue ultime pubblicazioni: L’Italia centrale. Estate 1944 in FULVETTI, Gianluca, PEZZINO, Paolo (a cura di), Zone di Guerra, Geografie di Sangue. L’Atlante delle stragi naziste e fasciste in Italia (1943-1945), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017, pp. 267-280; (con PRETELLI, Marco), Fighting alongside the Allies in Italy: The War of Soldiers of Italian Descent against the Land of their Ancestors, in SICA, Emanuele, CARRIER, Richard (edited by), Italy and the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp 299-324.
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During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers of Italian origin were enrolled in the US Armed Forces. Among those who fought in the Italian Campaign (1943-1945), many used ...their leaves to visit the country and its natural and artistic sights, but foremost to travel to their places of origin. Their visits home, often lasting some days, established stable and continuous contacts in the post-war period as part of root tourism or war tourism. This essay analyzes the visits home of these Italian-American soldiers as a particular form of diaspora tourism, focusing on the way which homecoming engraved on their sense of identity and ethnic-cultural belonging.
This is the first book available in English to comprehensively address the complicated subject of Polish-Ukrainian relations during and immediately after World War II. Polish-Ukrainian relations in ...the twentieth century are a topic that invariably engages historians, politicians, and public opinion in Poland and Ukraine. Many valuable works have been written on the subject, but many are distorting historical truth and collective memories, sometimes making today’s mutual relations problematic. Grzegorz Motyka’s book is a careful account of the most difficult period in Polish-Ukrainian relations, beginning in 1943 with the start of the Volhynian massacre and ending with the “Vistula” action in 1947. By discussing episodes of common history in an accessible manner, Professor Motyka presents an impartial picture of Polish-Ukrainian relations, devoid of national martyrology. In extremely difficult times, it builds a bridge for mutual understanding across historical divides.
Dopo l'8 settembre 1943, la liberazione di Mussolini e la costituzione del nuovo stato fascista repubblicano - dal dicembre 1943 denominato Repubblica sociale italiana - si decise di trasferire la ...sede del governo, e di tutta l'amministrazione centrale dello stato, nell'Italia del Nord. Fu un trasferimento lungo e complicato che alla fine vide gli uffici ministeriali disseminati in decine di località prevalentemente del Veneto e della Lombardia. Un trasferimento che, oltre alle strutture ministeriali, interessò la totalità degli enti statali e parastatali, gli uffici confederali e giudiziari, coinvolgendo migliaia di funzionari e impiegati.
Analizzando l'esperienza della Repubblica sociale attraverso le lenti del Partito fascista repubblicano e del ruolo di Benito Mussolini, Dianella Gagliani mette in evidenza la centralità ...dell'ideologia fascista per la Rsi.
Il saggio prende in esame l'amministrazione della Repubblica sociale italiana attraverso le relazioni mensili prodotte dalle Militärkommandanturen tedesche insediate in Toscana e in Emilia-Romagna, ...ed evidenzia le difficoltà incontrate dalla Rsi nella gestione dell'emergenza bellica e la sostanziale sfiducia degli occupanti verso l'alleato fascista.
In Prevail until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violent dissolution of the Third Reich. Mobilized for ...total war, soldiers and citizens alike experienced an unprecedented convergence of military, economic, social, and political crises. But even in retreat, the militarized national community unleashed ferocious energies, staving off defeat for over two years and continuing a systematic murder campaign against European Jews and others. Was its faith in the Führer never shaken by the prospect of ultimate defeat? Lohse uncovers how Germans experienced life and death, investigates how mounting emergency conditions affected their understanding of the nature and purpose of the conflagration, and shows how these factors influenced the people's relationship with the Nazi regime. She draws on Nazi morale and censorship reports, features citizens' private letters and diaries, and incorporates a large body of Allied intelligence, including several thousand transcripts of surreptitiously recorded conversations among German prisoners of war in Western Allied captivity. Lohse's historical reconstruction helps us understand how ordinary Germans interpreted their experiences as both the victims and perpetrators of extreme violence. We are immersively drawn into their desolate landscape: walking through bombed-out streets, scrounging for food, burning furniture, listening furtively to Allied broadcasts, unsure where the truth lies. Prevail until the Bitter End is about the stories that Germans told themselves to make sense of this world in crisis.
A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World War
In this gripping revisionist history of Italy's role ...in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation. While most historians have long described Italians as relatively protective of Jews during this time,The Italian Executionerstells a very different story, recounting in vivid detail the shocking events of a period in which Italians set in motion almost half the arrests that sent their Jewish compatriots to Auschwitz.
This brief, beautifully written narrative shines a harsh spotlight on those who turned on their Jewish fellow citizens. These collaborators ranged from petty informers to Fascist intellectuals-and their motives ran from greed to ideology. Drawing insights from Holocaust and genocide studies and combining a historian's rigor with a novelist's gift for scene-setting, Levis Sullam takes us into Italian cities large and small, from Florence and Venice to Brescia, showing how events played out in each. Re-creating betrayals and arrests, he draws indelible portraits of victims and perpetrators alike.
Along the way, Levis Sullam dismantles the seductive popular myth ofitaliani brava gente-the "good Italians" who sheltered their Jewish compatriots from harm. The result is an essential correction to a widespread misconception of the Holocaust in Italy. In collaboration with the Nazis, and with different degrees and forms of involvement, the Italians were guilty of genocide.
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