Mussolini's concentration camps for civilians
Subtitle: an insight into the nature of fascist racism
By: Luigi Reale
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780853038849
Subjects: Politics and government; Concentration camps; Racism; Sources; World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; Concentration camp inmates; History
Description: "This book fundamentally challenges how Italians remember life in Italy during the time of Mussolini and the Fascist years. It examines what Italians know of these Fascist concentration camps, which were set up all over Italy between 1940 and 1943, directly influenced by Mussolini's race laws of 1938. The book discusses in detail the Fascist race laws, comparing them with those of the Nazi regime. It studies the complex structure of internment created in Italy, in order to provide evidence that Fascist racism and Nazi racism evolved as two distinct but parallel movements that, while they shared many characteristics, were not the same. Using original documents from local archives, the book's detailed and comprehensive reconstruction of the camps - where they were located, why they were there, what they looked like, who was sent there, and how the internees lived or died - provides a unique insight into Fascist racism and how Italy, at the time, chose to deal with people who were neither Christian nor Italian"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. [161]-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fascism : its characteristics, racism and similarities to Nazism; title: The racist laws and anti-semitism; title: Political confinement and concentration camps for civil internees; title: Different concentration camp models in Italy before and after 1943; title: Some important organizations and their attitudes towards the camps.