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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The War Years
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Front Matter
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After the War
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy
Book Subtitle: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952
Authors: Alexis Herr
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-59898-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59896-7Published: 10 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-88807-8Due: 30 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59898-1Published: 14 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 227
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Italy, Judaism, Modern History