The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the ...extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the military and home fronts, and how their experience of the country at war eventually distanced them from the dictator and his fascist regime. Looking beyond Mussolini's initial fall from power, Morgan examines how the Italian people responded to the invasion, occupation, and division of their country by Nazi German and Anglo-American forces - and how crucial the experience of this period was in shaping Italy's post-war sense of nationhood and transition to democracy.
Hitlers Weg an die Macht ist oft beschrieben worden. Kaum beachtet wurde jedoch bisher, dass er sich dabei in starkem Maße an Mussolini orientierte. Der faschistische Diktator war sein großes ...Vorbild. Auf ihn ließ er auch nichts kommen, als er selbst die Macht erlangt hatte und der "Duce" von ihm abhängig geworden war. Die beiden Diktatoren verband eine politische Freundschaft, die bis zu ihrem Tode anhielt. Ursachen, Verlauf und Ausdrucksformen dieser 'Männerfreundschaft' sind Gegenstand dieses Buches, das die deutsche Zeitgeschichte ebenso befruchten wird wie die italienische.
In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims.
In 1923 the Governorate of Rome, under MUSSOLINI's direct control, developed a large urban renewal program in the city centre. This was based on two ideologies: the ideology of modernization and ...urban hygiene widespread in Europe and MUSSOLINI's personal urban ideology. In Rome, shaping the city compels the competent authorities to safeguard some heritage and to sacrifice some other. This selection has been studied by many historical architects and political historians, but few studies have dealt with the economic conditions of the renewal program. This article aims to analyze how urban renewal projects were managed by the Regime and its private partners and what were the issues of heritage and economic development. Adapted from the source document.
There is no question that the First Libyan Campaign of 1940-41 was an Italian military disaster of the highest order. For all of the ethnic slurs and cultural stereotyping levelled at Italian ...military performance in North Africa by historians and popular authors, the last 70 years has seen relatively little research effort invested into identifying the real military disadvantages under which Mussolini's soldiers in this theatre fought. When understood as a product of measurable and objective military factors, like the issue of leadership for example, the rout of the 10th Army takes on an entirely new complexion. The subsequent reputation of Italian soldiers as embarrassing battlefield liabilities in the Western Desert in this period is unfair. This overlooks the handicaps they fought under, and often ignores the bravery displayed in spite of them all. Like the Australians, the Italians in the Western Desert were ordinary men, no more and no less. In truth, it is singularly unsurprising that so many were killed or surrendered without putting up much real resistance. They faced challenges and conditions that would have handicapped troops from any country. Adapted from the source document.
Surviving Hitler and Mussolini Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka, Anette Warring / Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka, Anette Warring
2006
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Surviving Hitler and Mussolini examines how far everyday life was possible in a situation of total war and brutal occupation. Its theme is the social experience of occupation in German- and ...Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to survive. Survival included meeting the challenges of shortage and hunger, of having to work for the enemy, of women entering into intimate relations with soldiers, of the preservation of culture in a fascist universe, of whether and how to resist, and the reaction of local communities to measures of reprisal taken in response to resistance. What emerges is that ordinary people were less heroes, villains or victims than inventive and resourceful individuals able to maintain courage and dignity despite the conditions they faced.The book adopts a comparative approach from Denmark and the Netherlands to Poland and Greece, and offers a fresh perspective on the Second World War.
The Tragedy of Line C Ruggeri, Amanda
World policy journal,
12/2010, Letnik:
27, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
ROME-all roads leading to Rome are measured from a patch of grass in the middle of Piazza Venezia. Overlooking the square, a 400-foot monument celebrates the reunification of Italy. It was here, at ...the piazza, that Mussolini hung over a balcony and declared, to the electrified crowds below, a new Italian empire. Both the republican and imperial forums, with their triumphal arches and ruined temples, stand a few steps away. And at the end of the road leading southeast from the piazza, against the sky, looms the Colosseum. Adapted from the source document.
