Repression and Terror in Mussolini's government

Question 1

1926

Answer 1

• Mussolini introduced legislation that banned all other political parties
• Death penalty was re- introduced for anybody who tried to assassinate the King or Mussolini.

Question 2

Confino

Answer 2

the process by which the Special Tribunal could send political dissidents into exile for an unspecific amount of time.

• They prosecuted 13, 547 cases and imposed around 27,742 years of jail time.
• Around 10,000 Italians were sent to the Confino.
• Hundreds were arrested every week for antifascist activities.

Question 3

1926

Answer 3

• The Political Police division was formed.
• There were successful in infiltrating and breaking up antifascist organisations.
• They had a considerable network of spies.
• June 1936, it worked with the (SIM) to organise the assassination of prominent Italian antifascist exiles- Carlo and Nello Roselli in Paris by members of the Fascist groups.

Question 4

1927

Answer 4

OVRA ( Italian secret police) formed by Bocchini

• It spies on Italians across Italy.
• It was estimated that they were about 5000 Informers operating in Italy