The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy

Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952
2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-59896-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

This book analyzes the role and function of an Italian deportation camp during and immediately after World War Two within the context of Italian, European, and Holocaust history. Drawing upon archival documents, trial proceedings, memoirs, and testimonies, Herr investigates the uses of Fossoli as an Italian prisoner-of-war camp for Allied soldiers captured in North Africa (1942-43), a Nazi deportation camp for Jews and political prisoners (1943-44), a postwar Italian prison for Fascists, German soldiers, and displaced persons (1945-47), and a Catholic orphanage (1947-52). This case study shines a spotlight on victims, perpetrators, Resistance fighters, and local collaborators to depict how the Holocaust unfolded in a small town and how postwar conditions supported a story of national innocence. This book trains a powerful lens on the multi-layered history of Italy during the Holocaust and illuminates key elements of local involvement largely ignored by Italian wartime and postwar narratives, particularly compensated compliance (compliance for financial gain), the normalization of mass murder, and the industrialization of the Judeocide in Italy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herr, Alexis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.In the Market Place: Fascist Socialization and Consent in Carpi

2.Germany and its Occupied Ally: The German Occupation, the Repubblica di Salò, and the Deportations of Jews

3.Fossoli and the Final Solution

4.Deconstructing the So-called 'Silent Assent': The Chain of Command, Compensated Compliance, and Resistance

5.The Politics of Blame

6.From Concentration Camp to Christian Utopia: a battaglia per la moralità

Über Autor(innen)

Alexis Herr is a Lecturer in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies department at Keene State College, USA. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Holocaust History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, USA.