Ente Gestione e Liquidazione Immobiliare

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The Ente Gestione e Liquidazione Immobiliare ( EGELI ) was an authority that was founded in 1939 at the time of Italian fascism to manage and sell Jewish real estate . After the war she was responsible for the restitution of the formerly Jewish property.

history

Fascist Italy, out of opportunism, adopted an anti-Semitic policy with the aim of “not persecuting, but discriminating”. On November 17, 1938, the Royal Decree n. 1728 came into force as part of the Italian race laws , with which, among other things, Jews and Jewish property were defined and recorded. With the Royal Decree n. 126 of February 9, 1939, Jews were forbidden from owning property in excess of 20,000 lire and agricultural property in excess of 5,000 lire. Any further property had to be transferred from the Jewish owners to EGELI, which was founded especially for this purpose in 1939, in return for a 30-year bond . EGELI managed and sold the real estate for the Italian Ministry of Finance . After September 8, 1943, the headquarters of EGELI was relocated to San Pellegrino in Lombardy . With the constitution of the puppet government of the Italian Social Republic at the end of 1943, the Council of Ministers issued new, stricter guidelines on December 16, 1943, which came into force on January 4, 1944. With the change in the law, the property of the Jews in the areas controlled by the RSI could be completely confiscated and the real property transferred to the EGELI for exploitation. The tightening of the law followed just a few weeks after the Police Decree No. 5 of November 30, 1943, signed by Interior Minister Guido Buffarini-Guidi , which ordered the arrest of all Jews in the Italian Social Republic.

After the war, the top management was replaced by the National Liberation Committee and EGELI was entrusted with the restitution of the assets it managed. How much was confiscated and resold by EGELI between 1939 and 1945 is unclear, according to Furio Moroni. According to Guri Schwarz, the reimbursement was almost entirely possible with some effort and delays. On November 13, 1957, the EGELI was dissolved, the processing of the remaining cases and the remaining assets by the Ministry of Finance lasted until 1997.

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literature

  • Furio Moroni: Aspects of the Unbeautiful Life . Published in: The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Holocaust - Confronting European History . Ed .: Avi Beker, Palgrave 2001, ISBN 0-333-76064-6 , p. 297 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liliana Picciotto Fargion : Italy - The Approach to the National Socialist Jewish Policy from 1938 . published in Dimension des Genölkermord , Ed .: Wolfgang Benz, Oldenbourg 1991, ISBN 3-486-54631-7 , p. 200.
  2. ^ Raul Hilberg : The annihilation of the European Jews . Fischer 1993, ISBN 3-596-24417-X , p. 705.
  3. ^ Renzo De Felice : The Jews in Fascist Italy . Enigma Books 2001, ISBN 1-929631-01-4 , p. 333 f. and p. 352 f.
  4. ^ Fondo III - EGELI - Gestione beni ebraici e nemici. In: fondazione1563.alicubi.it. Retrieved February 7, 2020 (Italian).
  5. ^ Furio Moroni: Aspects of the Unbeautiful Life . P. 305.
  6. ↑ Guri Schwarz: The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Italy . Federal Agency for Civic Education November 29, 2007, accessed January 2, 2017.
  7. ↑ Gestioni Egeli - Ente di Gestione e Liquidazione Immobiliare dell'Istituto di San Paolo di Torino. In: archiviostorico.fondazione1563.it. Retrieved February 7, 2020 (Italian).