Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War

by Davide Rodogno , Translated by Adrian Belton

• ISBN13: 9780521845151
• ISBN10: 0521845157
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The aim of this series in early modern and modern European history is to publish outstanding works of research, addressed to important themes across a wide geographical range, from southern and central Europe, to Scandinavia and Russia, from the time of the Renaissance to the Second World War. As it develops, the series will comprise focused works of wide contextual range and intellectual ambition. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
List of maps	xi
Foreword	xii
Acknowledgements	xiv
Note on the translation	xvi
List of abbreviations	xvii
Introduction	1	(8)
PART I THE TIME OF IDIOCY
Prologue: The conquered territories	9	(175)
1 Italo-German relations in Mediterranean Europe	17	(25)
From the Axis to the alliance with Germany	17	(4)
From the Pact of Steel to the end of the parallel war	21	(16)
The fear of Germany: the Fascists' perception of the Nazis	37	(5)
2 The New Mediterranean Order	42	(30)
The right to found an empire: the new civilization and Fascism's civilizing mission	44	(3)
Organization of the spazio vitale: the new order	47	(7)
The new economic order in the European territories of the imperial community	54	(3)
Albania and the colonial experience as blueprints for construction of the new order	57	(6)
The inhabitants of the imperial community	63	(9)
3 The discrepancy between Fascism's plans for domination and actual occupation	72	(37)
The territories annexed	72	(37)
4 Mussolini, the civil and military authorities and the co-ordination of occupation policies	109	(35)
Mussolini's role	109	(6)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs	115	(2)
The Italian Commission for Armistice with France	117	(4)
The administrative structures of the annexed territories: civil commissions, governorates and high commissions	121	(5)
The PNF	126	(2)
The civil and military courts	128	(1)
The Banca d'Italia	129	(1)
The Regio Esercito	130	(8)
Power conflicts	138	(6)
5 The conquerors	144	(40)
The aristocracy of the new civilization and the civilizing mission	145	(1)
The leaders of the revolution and the empire	146	(4)
The honour code of the Italian officer	150	(2)
The morale of the soldiers	152	(9)
Perceptions and relationships between conquerors and the conquered	161	(6)
The everyday lives of the conquerors and the impact on occupation policies	167	(12)
Relations with the German soldiers	179	(5)
PART II
6 Relations with the occupied countries	184	(42)
Croatia, an occupied ally	185	(18)
Greece	203	(7)
France	210	(16)
7 Economic valorization and the exploitation of the occupied territories	226	(32)
Long-term plans: 'valorization' of the imperial community	226	(5)
Short-term exploitation of the occupied territories	231	(2)
Greece	233	(10)
Croatia	243	(5)
France	248	(10)
8 The forced Italianization of the new provinces	258	(41)
Ascertaining eligibility for citizenship, denationalization, Fascistization and colonization	259	(17)
The Fascist economy in the annexed provinces	276	(14)
The forced Albanianization of the provinces of Kosovo and Debar	290	(9)
9 Collaboration	299	(33)
Collaboration in the annexed territories: Slovenia and Dalmatia	304	(4)
Croatia	308	(13)
Montenegro	321	(3)
Greece	324	(3)
France	327	(5)
10 Repression	332	(30)
The civilian internment camps: their locations and inmates	348	(3)
Notes on the camps for former Yugoslavian civilians: the concentration camp on the island of Arbe (Rab)	351	(4)
Notes on other civilian internment camps in the territories militarily occupied by the Second Army	355	(2)
The Italian concentration camps in Montenegro, Albania, Greece and France	357	(5)
11 Policy towards refugees and Jews	362	(46)
The refugee question	365	(3)
Italian policies towards Jews	368	(6)
The militarily occupied territories	374	(26)
Italiani brava gente?	400	(8)
Epilogue	408	(9)
Appendix	417	(47)
Archival sources	464	(9)
Bibliography	473	(24)
Index	497