E77: Italian resistance, part 1

Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

5.0 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The first of a four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War Two and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.
In this episode, we look at the rise of fascism, the start of the resistance during World War Two, the partisan formations of the mountains and the participation of women in the resistance.

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Edited by Tyler Hill
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0:00.0	The Italian resistance to fascism saw unbelievable bravery from hundreds of thousands of ordinary people.
0:06.0	It's a story of mountain guerrilla bands ambushing one of the most advanced armies in the world.
0:11.0	It's a story of general strikes, urban insurrections and the overturning of gender norms.
0:16.0	A story of victory and betrayal, it's also a story where someone from a working-class family,
0:21.6	who had started work at the age of 10, would find themselves negotiating the total surrender
0:26.6	of 30,000 Nazi soldiers. This is working-class history.
0:31.6	At the morning, just Alzata
0:38.3	Oh, bella
0:42.3	Ciao
0:43.3	Of la ma'
0:44.3	La matino
0:53.3	We've been working on this series for around two years now
0:55.6	and have put in God knows how many hours of work
0:57.6	and incurred significant expenses in terms of translation, transcription, editing and so on.
1:02.7	We can only do this because of support from you, our listeners, on Patreon.
1:06.9	Our supporters fund our work and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes,
1:11.8	add free episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted merch and other content.
1:16.9	For example, our Patreon supporters can listen to all parts of this series now, plus three bonus episodes.
1:23.2	Join us or find out more at patreon.com slash working class history.
1:27.3	Link in the show notes.
1:29.1	We've also produced a range of merch commemorating the Italian resistance and our theme tune Bella Chow.
1:34.7	And as a listener to the podcast, you get a 10% discount of that and other items in our online shop using the discount code WCH podcast.
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