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- Title
Zwischen Skylla und Charybdis? Münchner Juden in Italien 1933 bis 1945.
- Authors
Schrafstetter, Susanna
- Abstract
Why did Jews from Germany seek refuge in fascist Italy? When did they go to Italy? How did they experience life in exile, during internment, and under German occupation? Based on the stories of 400 Munich Jews who fled to Italy between 1933 and 1940, Susanna Schrafstetter shows that emigration and flight to Italy were closely related to the expulsion of Jews of Polish background from Germany. A large percentage of the Munich Jews who arrived in Italy in 1939/40 possessed Polish passports. Whereas most foreign Jews left Italy after the promulgation of the Italian racial laws of 1938, not all of them were able to emigrate from Italy to other countries. The majority of those who remained, or were forced to remain, were interned after Italy's entry into the war in June 1940. The author describes the internment of the Munich Jews and demonstrates that nearly all of them were confronted with illness and suffering. Upon the German occupation of the Italian peninsula in September 1943, all Jews were threatened with arrest, deportation, and murder. Susanna Schrafstetter investigates regional differences in the implementation of persecution, and additionally sheds light on the heretofore insufficiently understood fate of Jewish partners in mixed marriages in Italy under German occupation.
- Subjects
GERMAN Jews; RACE relations -- Law &; legislation; FASCISM in Italy; GERMAN occupation of Italy, 1943-1945; SCHRAFSTETTER, Susanna
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2018, Vol 66, Issue 4, p577
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2018-0034