Partito Fascista Repubblicano

The Partito Fascista Repubblicano ( PFR ; German Republican Fascist Party ), usually simply called the Fascist Party in German , was a party in Italy that existed from 1943 to 1945 , as the successor party to the previously dissolved Partito Nazionale Fascista , the state party in Fascist Italy. It was the state party of the puppet state of the Italian Social Republic (RSI) in northern Italy towards the end of World War II .

history

After the liberation of Mussolini (" Company Oak ") in September 1943, the German Reich established a puppet state in the areas of northern Italy occupied by the Wehrmacht, the Italian Social Republic ("Republic of Salò"), in which the party was founded on September 13th , as the successor to the National Fascist Party, which previously ruled all of Italy. This had previously been banned as a result of Mussolini's fall. Under the leadership of the head of state and government Benito Mussolini, Alessandro Pavolini acted as party secretary, who militarized the party with the formation of the black brigades .

The first party congress took place between November 14 and 15, 1943 in Verona in Castelvecchio , at which the Verona Manifesto adopted the guidelines for the government program of the Italian Social Republic with the cooperation of the German General Representative in Italy Rudolf Rahn . In it, among other things, the Jews were declared enemies of the state, which sanctioned the persecution of the Jews in the Italian Social Republic.

With the murder of Mussolini by the Resistance and the dissolution of the RSI, the PFR also disappeared in April 1945.

References and comments

↑ Note: because 'Partito' is a masculine noun in Italian, 'der' (instead of 'die') is also used in German
↑ Liliana Picciotto : La macchina antiebraica della RSI e l'Ispettore generale per la razza Giovanni Preziosi. In: Michele Sarfatti (ed.): La Repubblica sociale italiana a Desenzano: Giovanni Preziosi e l'Ispettorato generale per la razza. Giuntina, Florence 2008 ISBN 978-88-8057-301-2 p. 25

[1] Note: because 'Partito' is a masculine noun in Italian, 'der' (instead of 'die') is also used in German

[2] Liliana Picciotto : La macchina antiebraica della RSI e l'Ispettore generale per la razza Giovanni Preziosi. In: Michele Sarfatti (ed.): La Repubblica sociale italiana a Desenzano: Giovanni Preziosi e l'Ispettorato generale per la razza. Giuntina, Florence 2008 ISBN 978-88-8057-301-2 p. 25