Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During the Second World War

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Cambridge University Press, Aug 3, 2006 - History - 504 pages
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 Based on previously unpublished sources, this is a groundbreaking contribution to genocide, resistance, war crimes and occupation studies as well as to the history of the Second World War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.
 

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Contents

Section 1
418
Section 2
419
Section 3
420
Section 4
421
Section 5
424
Section 6
425
Section 7
426
Section 8
427
Section 9
429
Section 10
432
Section 11
433
Section 12
434
Section 13
435
Section 14
438
Section 15
442
Section 16
443

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About the author (2006)

Davide Rodogno is Academic Fellow in the School of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.

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