War in the Deep South

Lang, Andrew F.

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“…The war that concerns us here clearly shared characteristics of the Russian and Spanish wars, including a preponderance of civilian victims over those in uniform: 120,000 of the more than 187,000 victims recorded by Claudio Pavone for 1943-1945 were non-combatants. 42 Estimates indicate that torture, executions, and deportation in fascist reprisals, and violence against partisans and the civilian population, ended the lives of 10,000-15,000 people (7400 according to data from the Carabinieri). The border between the world war, the civil war, the guerrilla war, and revolutionary insurrection was porous and is therefore difficult to trace.…”

Section: Irregular War 1943-1945: Fascist Civil Warmentioning

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Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

Rodrigo

2019

Fascist Warfare, 1922–1945

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Fascist Italy developed a policy of extreme violence in its colonial practices, in the context of the world war and occupation (in the Mediterranean, the Balkans and Russia), and in civil wars. Nonetheless, Mussolinian Fascism has survived media scrutiny rather well, a circumstance paradoxically assisted by the alliance it forged with Nazi Germany in the Spanish Civil War. Reduction ad hitlerum of the genocides during the Second World War has been a significant factor in glossing over Italian culpability in Africa, the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Italian war crimes and crimes against humanity during Mussolini's regime range from poison gas bombing in Ethiopia to the deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, and to the 'marvellous' Italian aviation actions, as Mussolini put it, in the bombing of Republican civilians in Spain. 1 It is not easy to find a historical analysis that connects these bellicose practices with the nature of the Italian Fascist regime, with its militarized foreign policy, with fascism as the great political praxis of interwar Europe, or with its violent and-in the most extreme case-eliminationist aim. In this chapter, by analysing two cases of Fascist participation in an intrastate war, we will examine how the concepts of civil war and fascist war are interrelated. We look first at Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil War,

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Section: Irregular War 1943-1945: Fascist Civil Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

Rodrigo

2019

Fascist Warfare, 1922–1945

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War in the Deep South

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Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945

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