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German and Italian fascist armies in the Second World War treated the Jews quite differently. Jews who fell into the hands of the German army ended up in concentration camps; none of those taken by the Italians suffered the same fate. Yet the protectors of the Jews were no philo-Semites, nor were they (often) great respecters of human life. Some of those same officers had sanctioned savage atrocities against Ethiopians and Arabs in the years before the war. Jonathan Steinberg uses this remarkable and poignant story to unravel the motives and forces underpinning both Fascism and Nazism. As a renowned historian of both Germany and Italy, he is uniquely placed to answer the underlying question; why?
'... a fine book [on] one of the most compelling but least explained chapters in the history of the Holocaust ... marked by careful research and thoughtful analysis' - Times Literary Supplement
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Abbreviations | p. xiv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| The Problem | p. 1 |
| The Events | p. 13 |
| Phase One: Unsystematic Murder: War in the Balkans | p. 15 |
| Phase Two: Systematic Murder: the Italians Obstruct the Final Solution | p. 50 |
| Phase Three: The Net Widens: the Italians Defend Jews in Greece and France | p. 85 |
| The Last Act: The Fall of Fascism to the Armistice | p. 135 |
| Explanations | p. 165 |
| The Matrix of Virtue and Vice | p. 168 |
| Two Types of Charisma | p. 181 |
| The Two Armies | p. 206 |
| Germans, Italians and Jews | p. 220 |
| Conclusion | p. 242 |
| Bibliography of Works Since 1990 | p. 245 |
| Sources and Bibliography | p. 251 |
| Notes | p. 274 |
| Index | p. 307 |
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ISBN: 9780415290692
ISBN-10: 0415290694
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 364
Published: 24th October 2002
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.8
x 2.6
Weight (kg): 0.431
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