Fascism's European empire : Italian occupation during the Second World War

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Fascism's European empire : Italian occupation during the Second World War

Davide Rodogno ; translated by Adrian Belton

(New studies in European history)

Cambridge University Press, 2006

  • : hardback

Other Title

Il nuovo ordine mediterraneo : le politiche di occupazione dell'Italia fascista in Europa (1940-1943)

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Bibliography: p. 473-496

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This 2006 book is a controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World War, which Davide Rodogno examines within the framework of fascist imperial ambitions. He focuses on the European territories annexed and occupied by Italy between 1940 and 1943: metropolitan France, Corsica, Slovenia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Western Macedonia, and mainland and insular Greece. He explores Italy's plans for Mediterranean expansion, its relationship with Germany, economic exploitation, the forced 'Italianisation' of the annexed territories, collaboration, repression, and Italian policies towards refugees and Jews. He also compares Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany through their dreams of imperial conquest, the role of racism and anti-Semitism, and the 'fascistization' of the Italian Army. Based on previously unpublished sources, this is a groundbreaking contribution to genocide, resistance, war crimes and occupation studies as well as to the history of the Second World War more generally.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part I: Prologue: the conquered territories. 1. Italo-German relations in Mediterranean Europe
  • 2. The New Mediterranean Order
  • 3. The discrepancy between Fascism's plans for domination and actual occupation
  • 4. Mussolini, the civil and military authorities and the coordination of occupation policies
  • 5. The conquerors
  • Part II: 6. Relations with the occupied countries
  • 7. Economic valorization and the exploitation of the occupied territories
  • 8. The forced Italianization of the new provinces
  • 9. Collaboration
  • 10. Repression
  • 11. Policy towards refugees and Jews
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • Archival sources
  • Printed sources and bibliography.

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  • NCID
    BA7817040X
  • ISBN
    • 0521845157
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 504 p., [28] p. of plates
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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