MUSSOLINI CONTRO GLI EBREI CRONACA DELL’ELABORAZIONE DELLE LEGGI DEL 1938 – LS

Analyzes Mussolini’s personal role in forging and implementing the antisemitic policy of fascist Italy. States that it was not due to German pressure that Mussolini acted on this issue, and that he himself revised and authorized the texts of the racial laws between February-November 1938. Pp. 16-80 contain extracts from Mussolini’s speeches and writings attesting to his active endorsement of anti-Jewish discrimination, and pp. 81-128 document the subsequent implementation of the racial policy. Pp. 129-182 describe the census of the Jewish population of 22 August 1938, its purposes and consequences. The appendices (pp. 184-197) include the texts of the racial laws.