Italian history

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• 10/10/2021
  

  Tracing World War 2's Impact on Sicily's Cultural Heritage Sites and Museums

  by Antonino Crisà

  World War II profoundly affected museums and antiquities in Sicily; a new research project is examining this underappreciated destructive consequence of war.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/8/2021
  

  Melting Glaciers Have Exposed Frozen Relics of World War I

  Melting glaciers have allowed access to a mountain barracks used by Austro-Hungarian soldiers fighting the "White War" in the Italian Alps. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4/28/2021
  

  France Arrests Ex-Members of Italy Extremist group Red Brigades

  Alleged members of the leftist terror group had been harbored in France under policies of its former Socialist president François Mitterand, with the proviso that such sanctuary was only for those who had not been involved in violence. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4/25/2021
  

  Stop Pretending Italian Fascists Were Innocent Victims

  The growing far right has sought to draw a moral equivalency between Italian Fascists and the leftist partisans, including Communists, who fought to expel fascist forces from occupied Yugoslavia at the end of World War II. Historian Eric Gobetti says that victims of reprisals were targeted for fascist allegiance, not Italian ethnicity.

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• SOURCE: iItaly.com
  11/8/2020
  

  What Does The Triumph of Biden-Harris Represent Historically?

  by Stanislao Pugliese

  "Americans should not make the same mistake committed in Italy after World War II in thinking that fascism was merely a “parenthesis” in Italian history."

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• ‘One Man, and One Man Alone’: Mussolini’s War

  by John Gooch

  Mussolini acted on the spur of the moment, always sensitive to the need to be seen as Hitler’s equal.  Rarely did anyone ever try to talk him out of a chosen course, and when they did so they failed.  You couldn’t reason with him.