E78: Italian resistance, part 2

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Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of our four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.
In this episode, we discuss the participation of migrant partisans in the resistance, what the resistance looked like in the cities, the raid of the Jewish ghetto in Rome and, finally, liberation and the execution of Mussolini.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to part two of our podcast series on the Italian Resistance.
0:04.1	If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, I suggest you go back and listen to that one first. Oh, bella, chow, bella, chow, bella, chow, la matina.
0:28.3	Before we get started, just a quick reminder that our podcast is brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:33.4	Our supporters fund our work and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes,
0:38.0	ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, free and discounted merchandise and other content.
0:43.1	For example, our patron supporters can listen to all the parts of this series now.
0:47.2	Patron supporters also have access to three bonus episodes for this series,
0:51.0	covering post-war anti-fascism, as well as discussions about films and music of the Italian Resistance.
0:56.8	Join us or find out more on patreon.com slash working class history. Link in the show notes.
1:02.6	We've also produced a range of merch commemorating the Italian resistance and our theme tune, Bella Chow.
1:08.0	And as a listener to the podcast, you get a 10% discount of that and other items
1:12.1	in our online shop using the discount code WCH podcast. Link in the show notes. As a content note for
1:19.3	our listeners, this episode contains some descriptions of war crimes. Because of the armistice and the Nazi occupation that followed it, the Italian resistance is sometimes depicted as a purely national
1:44.8	war between Italian citizens and their German occupiers. We go into more detail by what's
1:50.2	missing from that narrative in part three, like the two decades of Italian fascist dictatorship
1:54.6	before the German occupation. But one thing that's often ignored about the resistance
1:58.7	was how international it was. In the Sabia, there was a prison camp and there were Slavs.
2:07.6	In Valley Sabia, there was a prison camp and there were Slavs.
2:10.6	They were Americans, they were Germans.
2:13.6	All captured by the Italian army.
2:15.6	After the armistice on September the 8th, they couldn't go home because there was the war.
2:21.3	And so many Slavs stopped with the Perlaska Brigade.
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