Abstract

ExcerptTraditionally, Fascist antisemitism has not merited much consideration in either the Italian or foreign historiography. Italy is often described as an exceptional nation, virtually free of the anti-Jewish hatred that existed widely on the rest of the continent. Even the Italian debate on the subject was quite limited until the end of the 1980s. After the important research of Meir Michaelis and Renzo De Felice, who demonstrated definitively that Fascist racist policies were not imposed by Hitler on Mussolini, a general stagnation persisted for several years in this field of research.1 However, those two very important works did not deal…