La presse italienne et la persécution des Juifs d’Europe de l’Est en 1941

As of today, there has not been sufficient work done on the information that the German and Italian press provided on the extermination of the Jews during World War II. This paper analyzes the Italian press. When Italian journalists were sent to the Eastern front in 1941 at the beginning of the Jewish extermination in the East, what did they see and what did they hide? How did the Fascist press relay, or rather, conceal and change, the news regarding the tragic fate of the Jews in Eastern Europe? This paper addresses these topics through article analysis and through the examination of archival documents and unpublished memoirs. In our research, we consulted the following daily newspapers: La Stampa, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Popolo d’Italia, Il Giornale d’Italia, Il Tempo, La Tribuna and Il Tevere. The archival documents came from public archives and newspapers such as the Corriere della Sera, which published the first version of the famous Curzio Malaparte article on the Iasi pogrom that was later completely revised. At the end of the paper, a brief analysis is made of the photos that accompany certain texts

Archaeology · Art · Art history · German · Humanities · Judaism · Memoir · Newspaper · Political science · Classics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law