My grandpa being the decorated in 1942 for saving what was left of the cruiser Trento’s crew the, sunk during the allied operation Harpoon. He was a machinist engineer. Later half of his family would sadly be executed by the Germans for harboring fugitives destined to concentration camps.Submitted by LUNA_FOOD t3_z0wnno in OldSchoolCool
ersentenza t1_ix8ozn2 wrote
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Most Italians were not onboard with Mussolini's sudden racist U-turn. Everyone had to put up a public display, but Mussolini himself later complained that even within Fascist ranks there was a lot of silent obstruction to the racial measures. And even he was not willing to go to the extreme, until the country disintegrated in 1943 and the Nazis took over.
JimBeam823 t1_ix9pz76 wrote
Antisemitism was considered backwards and gauche in 1930s Italy. Mussolini openly mocked Hitler’s racial theories when Hitler first came to power.
Mussolini’s turn to appease Hitler to secure the military alliance was widely unpopular.
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