... of Jews until the Counter-Reformation. Pope Paul IV (1555-1559) was a major component in the change of attitudes. During the end of the sixteenth century, ghettos were introduced in Italy. Later they also appeared in the Austrian Empire. (Flannery) One of the bloodiest decade, since biblical times, occurred in Poland (1648-1658). In 1648, the eastern Orthodox Cossacks ... IN HIS BOOK, HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS: ORDINARY GERMANS AND THE HOLOCAUST. Many massacres occurred in a nationwide pogrom in 1938. Consequently, anti-Semitism grew throughout Europe. Countries including France, It...

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... life progressed, her health problems only became worse (Mann 128-130). In April of 1946, the ship Fede was turned back by the British government to Italy. The Fede held approximately 1200 Jewish refugees. Upon reaching Italy, the refugees refused to disembark from the ship and began a hunger strike (Mann 130). Around the same time that the Fede had been turned away ... , the ship Golomb was also sent to the same port in Italy and the refugees on that ship joined in the hunger strike (Noble 77). Several Jewish leaders in Palestine decided that they too, should join in on this massive hung...

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... che non siano parenti..tutte le famiglie hanno interessi da spartire tra di loro" There is a definite feel of community and therefore the collective. Italy was deeply divided after World War I and due to this lack of unification amongst Italians, less than four years later Mussolini, the Fascist leader, was ... Prime Minister. Post-war Italy did not have a stable political framework and lacked national identity and this allowed fascism to rise. The 1920's saw significant changes in society under ... Literature. Bassani's novel Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini is set in 1938-9 in his own n...

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... even if the remembering, when that happens, may not get it quite right- (1999). People's memories are what we have to rely on to document the truth, which is how history is created. Realistic films on historical issues are a creation of somebody's memory, however that is our reality, and that becomes our historical truth. Therefore, it is important that films like ... was taken "as a prisoner of war who was sent to labour camps similar to those of concentration camps, but without the gas chambers."" He was sent to the camps because Italy became an enemy of Germany, and his Italian fathe...

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... "23 and would require a "diversion of considerable air support".24 With respect to the diversion of air support between July and November 1944, the American 15th AF division, stationed in Italy, carried out over 2,800 bomber attacks on Blechhammer, the synthetic oil and rubber works factory not 5 miles from the gas chambers. The chambers were never bombed. Later, parts of Auschwitz ... would have made them subjects of international law, legally binding the International Red Cross to protect them. This wasn't done either.25 It is fairly easy to look back on history and comment on what cou...

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