... the crux of the question was to achieve by diplomacy not the republican slogan of the masses. Cavour was to make known to the world the Italian question and to exploit the enthusiasm of Napoleon III in order to exclude Austrian power from Italy. While it left to the monarchy to take care of the liberty of the people at time the essential condition was the break up of the Holy Alliance with the fall of Metternich. Whole the goal was a constitutional monarchy under the ... in the west. After all, Russia wanted to keep the threat of Prussia alive as a check on France. Russia also did not l...

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... In October 1943, with the Germans in control, the roundup and deportation of Jews from Rome began. Signs of imminent actions were clear, as the office of the Jewish community in Rome was plundered, and its funds, library, and archives were all confiscated. Lists of the Jews in Rome were taken. Still, it was mistakenly believed that the Germans would not deport the Jews of Rome, in the backyard of the pope. Outside of Rome, Jewish leaders took the warning signs seriously. In Venice, Dr. Giuseppe Jona, the leader of the ... the part not only of the Nazi occupiers but of the Italian police w...

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