The Italian Executioners (eBook)

The Genocide of the Jews of Italy

Simon Levis Sullam (Autor)

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2018
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18410-4 (ISBN)

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A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World WarIn this gripping revisionist history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy's Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini's collaborationist republic was under German occupation. While most historians have long described Italians as relatively protective of Jews during this time, The Italian Executioners tells a very different story, recounting in vivid detail the shocking events of a period in which Italians set in motion almost half the arrests that sent their Jewish compatriots to Auschwitz.This brief, beautifully written narrative shines a harsh spotlight on those who turned on their Jewish fellow citizens. These collaborators ranged from petty informers to Fascist intellectuals-and their motives ran from greed to ideology. Drawing insights from Holocaust and genocide studies and combining a historian's rigor with a novelist's gift for scene-setting, Levis Sullam takes us into Italian cities large and small, from Florence and Venice to Brescia, showing how events played out in each. Re-creating betrayals and arrests, he draws indelible portraits of victims and perpetrators alike.Along the way, Levis Sullam dismantles the seductive popular myth of italiani brava gente-the "e;good Italians"e; who sheltered their Jewish compatriots from harm. The result is an essential correction to a widespread misconception of the Holocaust in Italy. In collaboration with the Nazis, and with different degrees and forms of involvement, the Italians were guilty of genocide.

Autor

Simon Levis Sullam is associate professor of modern history at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His previous books include Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.8.2018
• Übersetzer: Oona Smyth, Claudia Patane
• Vorwort: David I. Kertzer
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: alley • Anti-Fascism • Anti-Jewish laws • anti-Judaism • Antisemitic canard • Antisemitism • Antisemitism (authors) • armistice • Arrest warrant • auschwitz concentration camp • Black Brigades • bureaucrat • Carabinieri • Chief of Police • Collaborationism • Confiscation • Criminal Record • Culpability • Decree • dehumanization • Deportation • Dictatorship • Enzo Traverso • Ettore Muti • extermination camp • Extortion • Franz Stangl • gas chamber • Germans • Giangiacomo Feltrinelli • Giovanni Preziosi • Guardia di Finanza • Henchman • Historiography • Household • Ideology • Imprisonment • inspectorate • internment • Italian Armed Forces • Italian Fascism • Italian Jews • Italians • Italian Social Republic • Jews • labor camp • Lake Maggiore • Lecture • Legislation • Livorno • Looting • Luino • Macerata • Mass murder • mixed-blood • National Republican Army (Italian Socialist Republic) • national security • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • Northern Italy • Nuremberg Laws • Persecution • persecution of Jews • Piazza Colonna • Pietro Badoglio • Pietro Caruso • Police Headquarters • police station • Political prisoner • Primo Levi • Propaganda • Publication • Public security • Racism • Radicalization • Raphael Lemkin • reform school • Renzo De Felice • Republican Fascist Party • Roman Ghetto • Rudolf Rahn • scientific racism • Sobibór extermination camp • Sondrio • Squadrismo • Surname • tavern • Tax • Theft • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion • Totalitarianism • Treblinka extermination camp • two women • University of Siena • War Crime • Warrant for Genocide • World War II • Yad Vashem • Zygmunt Bauman
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18410-0 / 0691184100
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18410-4 / 9780691184104