The Holocaust in Italy: Difference between revisions

The oppression of Italian Jews began in 1938 with the enactment of [[Italian Racial Laws|Racial Laws]] of segregation by the fascist regime of [[Benito Mussolini]]. Before the Italian surrender in 1943, however, Italy and the Italian occupation zones in Greece, France and Yugoslavia had been places of relative safety for local Jews and European Jewish refugees. This changed in September 1943, when German forces occupied the country, installed the [[List of World War II puppet states|puppet state]] of the [[Italian Social Republic]] and immediately began persecuting and deporting the Jews found there. Of the Jewish Italian population of 38,994, 71727,172 were arrested and became victims of the Shoah. Those who managed to evade deportation while remaining in Italy amounted to more than 81%, namely 31,822 people by war's end.<ref>[[:it:Liliana Picciotto|Liliana Picciotto Salvarsi]],''Gli ebrei d’Italia sfuggiti alla Shoah 1943-1945,'' [[Einaudi]] {{isbn|978-8-806-23509-3}} 2017 pp.3,488,490.</ref> The Italian police and Fascist militia played an integral role as the Germans' accessories.