7) Fascism and Repression Flashcards
When was the OVRA established?
1927
How many employees did the OVRA have?
375
Which islands were used for confine?
Lipari and Lampedusa
How many executions were there between 1922 and 1940?
9
How many people were tried in Fascist Italy?
21,000
What percentage of trials were acquitted?
75%
What year were the Manifesto della Razza
1938
When had Mussolini previously shown his support for the Jewish Community, and what was the quote?
1932- he stated that the Italian Jews “have always behaved well as citizens and fought courageously as soldiers”
What blatent evidence can be used to show that Mussolini did not share Hitler’s hatred of the Jewish race?
His mistress, Margherita Sarfatti was a Jew
When did racial views largely emerge in Italy?
Following the Abyssinian War
What was the document that passed the racial laws in 1938 called?
Manifesto of Racial Scientists
How many Italian Jews were sent to Nazi Concentration Camps, and how many survived?
7500 were sent to the camps and only 600 survived
How many Jews had been members of the PNF?
10,000
What was the average prison sentence?
5 years
Why was there a ban on internal migration?
So people could no longer move from the South to the North
