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Originally Posted by Donncha Dennis
You guys should read more into Mussolini he took many stands against the jews and was just as racially aware as hitler. His last recorded letter also states how he felt the jews were behind the war sort of his last testament. Mussolini unlike hitler though was working with a different culture and people and had not the same upbringing as Germany did. Mussolini couldn't outright come against all the jews just yet because of various groups and organizations and also the Italian people would not stand for it.
Many jews by then had integrated in with Italian culture and freely moved about within Italian society even some early fascists were jews. Italians also had a long history with them and many considered them fully integrated with Italian values. I mean even today we see a lot of jews want to be Italian or pretend to be Italian, many half Italian half jewish mixes too.
Sadly its very hard to find good Italian translations of things. But if you take a look at the Italian salo republic it was more true to what Mussolini had intended because he could finally break clean of all the nay sayers and other groups he had to placate during his reign over all of Italy. In the salo republic he put some real heavy infamous jew haters into positions of government and he no longer had to play nice with the pope and his working spheres of
influence.
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Antisemitism didn't play the role under Mussolini as it did under the National Socialists . .
The Italians concentrated on two things. .
a ) resurrect their country from what it had to endure . .
b ) give Italy some meaning again . .
They may have defended themselves against Bolshevism yet it was Germany primarily which had vowed vengeance to the eternal jew . .