biography
pronunciation:
[farinahchee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1945)
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| biography:
| Italian statesman, born in Isernia, SC Italy. Among the first to join the Fascist movement, he organized the Fascist squads in the Cremona province, became a deputy (1921) and party leader (1925–6), a member of the Fascist grand council (1935), and a minister of state (1938). An ardent racialist and anti-Semite, notorious for his extremism and pro-Nazi tendencies, he edited the Regime Fascista, the Party organ. He was in favour of the alliance with Germany and its anti-semitic policy, and backed Mussolini at the Gran Consiglio meeting of 1943. He escaped to Germany but returned to establish the Republic of Salò. He was ultimately captured and shot, on the same day and by the same band of partisans as Mussolini, while attempting to flee to Switzerland. |
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