Intro
The television story
During an interview given to the journalist Andrea Barbato for a Rai broadcast, which aired on 8 May 1965, entitled "La lotta per la libertà. Vent’anni di opposizione al fascismo", the historian Renzo De Felice defined the racial laws of 1938 «one of the most unpopular acts committed by the fascist regime, which the Italian people, along with some Mussolini followers, do not accept», as «infamy contrary to the traditions of the country».
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The research project and the webdoc
The project “Fascist Past. Fascism and Nazism in the TV story RAI and Mediaset”, aims to analyze the ways in which Italian television has told the experience of the fascist and National Socialist regime, over 70 years of Italian history (from 1954, the beginning of RAI television broadcasts, to 2022), influencing convenient narratives, wrong perceptions, […]
Browse the Web doc
The webdoc that you are preparing to navigate is presented as a new generation interactive teaching tool aimed primarily at students and teachers but also at a non-specialist audience who want to approach the television and historiographical story about fascism and the nazism. The web doc is divided into sections: an introductory part with a […]
Events
March on Rome
28th October: Fascism takes the power
Lateran Treaty
11 February: Lateran Treaty. The agreement between the fascist regime and the Vatican
The proclamation of the Empire
9 May: Conquest of Ethiopia and proclamation of the Empire.
Entry into the War
10 June: Italy enters World War II
Regime collapse
25 July: Fascist regime collapses. The King arrests Mussolini and entrusts the government to Badoglio
The Resistance begins
8 September: Armistice with the Anglo-Americans announced. German occupation and Resistance begins
the Republic of Salò
23 September: the Italian Social Republic is born, with headquarters in Salò
The Liberation
25 April: Liberation from Nazi Fascism
the Munich putsch
8-9 November: German National Socialist Party attempts coup
Hitler takes over
30 January: The birth of the Third Reich
The Nuremberg Laws
The persecutory norms against the Jewish population.
The Spanish Civil War
1939: the clash between Republicans and Franco ended with the victory of Franco, supported by Fascism and Nazism
the Steel Pact
22 May: The diplomatic and military agreement between Hitler and Mussolini.