Saturday,
January 26, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
There
are 13 US Presidential Libraries/Museums, one for Every US President from
Herbert Hoover to
As
Roberto Chiarini, a State University of Milan history
professor, who is in charge of the project, stated: "At last the demonisation of Mussolini has stopped and we can look
seriously at the history," he said "Until now there were more than 70
historical institutes in Italy devoted to partisans but not one that looked at Salò."
People
tend to forget that Mussolini was the Prime Minister of Italy 21 years
(1922-1943), and that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a delegation to
Italy to study Mussolini's Social Reforms, many of which he incorporated into
FDR's "New Deal" that saved the US from the Depression. Mussolini was
lauded by ALL European Powers, and the
Mussolini's
reputation started to decline with:
(1)
The Occupation of Protectorate
(2)
The Racial Purity and Loyalty
Laws of 1937, that were to discourage Italian troops marriage
with Ethiopian women, and to require Jews in many Italian
government high positions in, to sign Loyalty oaths to Italy, to prevent them
from acting as "tools" of Britain to Italy's disadvantage. Jews
were numerous and important Mussolini Fascists at the beginning, and
signed such oaths, and held their positions.
(3)
Moving closer to Hitler,
when Mussolini's attempts to join the
(4)
Joining the war on Hitler's
side, when Hitler was at
Unfortunately,
Hitler did Not advise Mussolini in advance that Hitler was going to Invade the
Mussolini
was able to navigate these well thought out actions, even though they back
fired, until Hitler's Invasion of the
He was never the same again. He then realized he had linked his fortunes not to
a Rising Star Anti-Communist, but to a Sinking Rock.
He
then became a "sad" shadow of his former self, knowing the
depressing "cataclysmic" outcome.
Telegraph.co.uk
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By Malcolm Moore
January 26, 2008
A museum dedicated to Benito Mussolini has been opened in response to requests by German tourists.
The museum in Salò, on the shores of
The
He even executed Galeazzo Ciano, his own son-in-law.
Salò still has resonance for many extreme-Right political parties, including the Tricolour Flame, which refers to it as an ideal in its manifesto.
However, Roberto Chiarini, a State University of Milan history professor who
is in charge of the project, denied that the museum would encourage nostalgia
for
"At last the demonization of Mussolini has stopped and we can look seriously at the history," he said.
"Until now there were more
than 70 historical institutes in
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/26/wmuss126.xml
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