... 1916 into a middle-class Jewish family and so he belonged to that generation of Italian writers who emerged from the fascist era and the Second World War determined to change the course of Italian Literature. Bassani's novel Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini is set in 1938-9 in ... reader about the Finzi-Contini children's education: "Studiavano invece privatamente, sia Alberto sia Micòl Mandare i proprio figlioli alle scuole pubbliche era considerato in genere patriottico. Non mandarceli, disfattistico." There is an irony here in that now, because of the Racial Laws, the Finzi- ... indivi...

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... state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators - was difficult for many people to comprehend and, moreover, accept. Those who visited concentration camps after the war in Eastern Europe were confronted by things that, in the words of United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower, beggar description. 1 What so shocked those observers initially in 1945 was in fact ... in hunting fugitives, and sadly betrayed their Jewish neighbors. Italy s Jews can trace their roots back to ancient times. The Vatican was well preceded by the synagogue. Throughout the Christia...

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... world in bearing witness' to ensure such atrocities are not able to be repeated. However, academics argue, perhaps on principle, that films trivialise war for the purpose of creating entertainment and capital gain which diminishes the films role as an educative devise. Often academic's criticisms are aimed more ... victims and the Nazi villains and perhaps conveyed a more sanitised version of the events (Nixdorf, 2003. pg 247). Themes popular throughout this era were the depiction of Jews in hiding and Jews as successful, accomplished individuals who were unfairly persecuted. The Diary o...

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... the more notable death marches included the mass march from the Warsaw Ghetto to the camp at Auschwitz and the march from Dachau to Tegernsee towards the end of the war. One of the keys to the relative successes of Hitler's extermination plans was that few people escaped the horrors at the end of the death march. So there were only ... and others whom have created their narratives of the death marches, the process of developing a view of what occurred that is not negated by a sometimes anti-Semitic historiography of the era is at the heart of issues around expression of these events. It...

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