General Roatta's war against the partisans in Yugoslavia: 1942

Burgwyn, H James

doi:10.1080/1354571042000254746

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“…Anti-Italian sentiment is not only a reflection of Italian collaboration in the Risiera's operation and Fascist paramilitary support for German action against partisans after 1943 (Apih 2000;Fö lkel 2000;Hametz 2002). Italy's regular army had previously displayed extreme brutality whilst combating partisan activity and in operating its own concentration camps (Burgwyn 2004;Del Boca 2005;Rodogno 2006;Walston 1997). Italian Fascist persecution of the Slav minority within its north-eastern borderlands had, moreover, begun during the interwar years (Apih 1966;Č ermelj 1945;Hametz 2001).…”

Section: Contested Memories At the Risiera DI San Sabbamentioning

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Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Purvis

Atkinson

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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The paper examines contest over one of Trieste's most emotive sites of memory, the former Nazi death camp at the Risiera di San Sabba. Attention is paid to the Risiera as a site for ceremonial recollection of World War Two, and to the enmeshing of the local civic calendar of events within wider currents of academic and political revisionism affecting the upper Adriatic. The paper complements existing studies of former Nazi camps as memorial sites through attention to a distinctive geographical and political context, and by exploring the Risiera as an increasingly problematic site of performance.

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Section: Contested Memories At the Risiera DI San Sabbamentioning

confidence: 97%

Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Purvis

Atkinson

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Traditionally hostile to irregular forms of warfare (Whittam 1977, 77–80), the army depicted partisans as an illegitimate, frustrating, nefarious, and cowardly enemy, shirking from open combat in favour of ‘surprise’ and ‘traps’ 9 . Italian military authorities offered no quarter to captured partisans, who were to be ‘immediately shot on the spot’ (Burgwyn 2004, 318). As an article in La Tradotta explained, ‘the survivors that surrender understand, more than our limited Slavic vocabulary, that much more eloquent [language] of our rifles.’ 10…”

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confidence: 99%

Religion, race, and the nation inLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943

Virtue

2018

Mod. Italy

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This paper examines intersections and divergences between Catholic universalism and Fascist ethno-nationalism in the pages ofLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, a satirical weekly newspaper for Italian military personnel in occupied Yugoslavia during the Second World War. Military propagandists appealed to grassroots Catholicism to motivate demoralised Italian soldiers in the last year of war against the communist-led Yugoslav partisan movement. Their use of Catholic themes revealed overlapping values but also apparent incongruities between Christianity, Fascism, and Italian military culture that had been evident throughout theventennio. While Catholic anti-communism blended relatively seamlessly with nationalist-Fascist anti-Slavism to depict the partisan enemy as a dehumanised Other, the use of conventional piety and Christian humanitarianism in the army’s propaganda contradicted Fascist and military concepts of the ideal Italian ‘new man’. In the process, military propagandists sowed the seeds for thebrava gentemyth that dominated postwar memory and national identity in Italy.

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“…Once Pirelli arrives in Montenegro in July 1941, the crisis in his understanding of the war grows more acute, and his accounts of the Italian reprisals there evoke his unwillingness to describe these events. Carlo Spartaco Capogreco (2001), James Burgwyn (2007), and Eric Gobetti (2013) have all documented the atrocities committed by the Italian army in Yugoslavia especially in 1942–43. Although Pirelli transfers before the most violent countermeasures occur, his diaries reveal that the Italian army was already beginning to target villages suspected of harbouring partisans.…”

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A Fragmented Transformation: Giovanni Pirelli’s War Writings, 1940–1944

Love

2016

Mod. Italy

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In this paper, I examine the unpublished First World War diaries of Giovanni Pirelli – heir to the helm of the Pirelli tyre company – for their account of how the war and fall of Fascism may have catalysed his dissociation from his family, his class, and his ideological foundation. In the post-war period, Pirelli traced the source of his rejection of his inheritance to his experiences during the Russian retreat, but in the moment, the expression of this kind of transformation is fragmentary and complex. Scholars often look to war diaries and letters for their testimony to the state of the individual in combat. Through close reading, I trace how Pirelli’s writings negotiate his immense privilege and his attempt to construct a moral identity in the midst of war. I consider how they demonstrate his break with his wartime ideals and Fascism and how they anticipate his later transition from industrial heir to socialist activist. My examination of these diaries reveals the ambiguities inherent in this transformation of Fascist and bourgeois subjectivity.

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General Roatta's war against the partisans in Yugoslavia: 1942

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Religion, race, and the nation inLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943

A Fragmented Transformation: Giovanni Pirelli’s War Writings, 1940–1944

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