ITALIAN RACIAL LAWS IN TRIESTE AND THE BURDENS OF A FASCIST LEGACY It is the anniversary of the shameful proclamation of Italian racial laws. It was September 18th, 1938, and the city of Trieste, annexed to Italy after World War…
THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS OF ITALIAN HISTORY: THE SECOND THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
The history of the past century has lead to the end of Mitteleuropa, swept away by rising nationalisms resulting in two World Wars, even better, to a long war that lasted thirty years (1914-1945). The second Thirty Years’ War, the…
FREE TERRITORY OF TRIESTE AND RACIAL LAWS: A 1960 CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT
At the end of World War II, one of the first actions of the occupying Allied Military Government (A.M.G. V.G.) based in Trieste was to repeal the shameful racial laws force by Italy in 1938 against the Jews. It was…