... Rise of Mussolini "I am fascism," said Benito Mussolini, and indeed, the success of the Italian fascist movement depended heavily on his leadership. Mussolini (1883–1945) was the son of a Turmoil between the Wars socialist blacksmith. His mother was a schoolteacher, and he deferentially followed in her footsteps. But he was restless and dissatisfied, soon leaving Italy for further study ... . Judgements about the 'characters' of members of 'inferior' races permitted colonial powers to disregard the rule of law where they thought it appropriate. Nearexterminationist policies p...

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... Jews. Simply, he wished to push them out of the mainstream of Italian life, and, if possible, out of Italy altogether. To this end, his government facilitated the departure of native-born and foreign Jews who were in Italy at the time. None of these points in any way should be taken (as it sometimes has been) as exonerating Mussolini; they ... Ancona, Rabbi Elio Toaff, who was told of the deportation, advised his community to hide and not to come to Yom Kippur services. In Florence, Rabbi Nathan Cassuto, a physician and son of a renowned biblical scholar, went from house to house exhort...

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