{"id":4384,"date":"2014-12-04T23:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2014-12-04T23:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T04:46:31","slug":"the-crumbling-of-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/12\/04\/the-crumbling-of-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crumbling of Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clark&#8217;s article &#8220;Fascist diplomacy and Fascist war&#8221; delineates the weakening and ultimate collapse of the fascist state during the Second World War. \u00a0The place of South Tyrol in this argument emphasized the divisions inside Italy that limited the unification of the country. \u00a0South Tyrol held a german-speaking population which influenced Italy in favor of the League of Nations. ((Martin Clark, \u201cFascist Diplomacy and Fascist War,\u201d in Clark,\u00a0<i>Modern Italy, 1871-1995<\/i>, London: Longman, 1996, 281)) \u00a0The region became an issue with the rise of the\u00a0<em>Reich<\/em>. \u00a0Although Hitler never included the population of South Tyrol in his plans for the Aryan race, the region nonetheless strongly favored repatriation when it was offered by Mussolini. ((Clark, \u201cFascist Diplomacy and Fascist War,\u201d 283.))<\/p>\n<p>The region became an issue again near the end of World War II. \u00a0South Tyrol came under Nazi leadership effectively shutting the region out of the Italian economy. ((Clark, \u201cFascist Diplomacy and Fascist War,\u201d 292.)) \u00a0The region lived under German rule and allowed the German&#8217;s to establish a colony in Italy. \u00a0 In effect, the population of South Tyrol enjoyed all the benefits of staying in Italy while living under a different government. ((Martin Clark, \u201cFascist Diplomacy and Fascist War,\u201d 292))\u00a0\u00a0South Tyrol reflected the difficulties in Sicily during this period. \u00a0From both the North and South Fascist Italy lost support. \u00a0Once again Mussolini polarized the regional differences of Italy by forcing government officials to cease living in Sicily; their birthplace. ((Martin Clark, \u201cFascist Diplomacy and Fascist War,\u201d 290.)) \u00a0Mussolini&#8217;s actions deepened regional and cultural divisions between the northern and southern regions of Italy.<\/p>\n<p>When compared to the other colonial of territories South Tyrol depicts a bleak picture of the Fascist government&#8217;s ability to maintain territory. \u00a0What does it say about Fascism that part of Italy could so easily slip into German hands? \u00a0Moreover, with the majority of the region&#8217;s population choosing to be governed by a foreign country, how does this affect the efforts to unify Italy? \u00a0Although Sicily did not experience similar governmental shift, it did move away from supporting Fascism. \u00a0How much of an effect did the pre-existing prejudices have in the polarization of Italy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark&#8217;s article &#8220;Fascist diplomacy and Fascist war&#8221; delineates the weakening and ultimate collapse of the fascist state during the Second World War. \u00a0The place of South Tyrol in this argument emphasized the divisions inside Italy that limited the unification of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/12\/04\/the-crumbling-of-fascism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}