Telesio Interlandi

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Telesio Interlandi (born October 20, 1894 in Chiaramonte Gulfi , † January 15, 1965 in Rome ) was an Italian journalist and propagandist . He was one of the leading representatives of anti-Semitism in fascist Italy .

biography

Telesio Interlandi was born in the small Sicilian town of Chiaramonte Gulfi and received his education in Catania . He took part in the First World War as a sub-lieutenant ( Sottotenente ) and then became a journalist for various daily newspapers. For La Nazione in Florence he reported on the March on Rome in 1922 . In the 1920s he was editor-in-chief of the fascist paper Impero , published by Mario Carli . On Mussolini's orders , Interlandi founded the newspaper Il Tevere in 1924 and was its editor-in-chief for 20 years. The daily newspaper from Rome was to serve as a counterweight to the official party organ Il Popolo d'Italia , contained four pages each and was tailored to radical fascists such as Roberto Farinacci and Giovanni Preziosi . In the columns of Il Tevere Interlandi turned against him disliked fascist politicians like Giuseppe Bottai or against the architect Marcello Piacentini .

Interlandi was a staunch supporter of racial theories , from which his anti-Semitism also fed. In 1938 he founded the racist magazine La difesa della razza and published it until it was closed in 1943. His hatred of Jews was so strong that even Mussolini asked him on occasion to moderate his language. After the establishment of the Republic of Salò , Interlandi wrote mainly for Preziosis' La vita italiana magazine and was also briefly in charge of propaganda for the fascist puppet state .

After the end of the war, he received the amnesty announced by Togliatti in 1946 and subsequently did not appear publicly. Although he did not participate directly in the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano , he was considered the ideological mentor of its founder Giorgio Almirante . Interlandi died in Rome in 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RJB Bosworth : The Oxford Handbook of Fascism . Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 308.
  2. ^ Philip Rees: Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right . Simon & Schuster , New York 1990. p. 195.
  3. ^ Philip Rees: Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right . Simon & Schuster, New York 1990. p. 194.

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personal data
SURNAME Interlandi, Telesio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian fascist journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiaramonte Gulfi
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1965
Place of death Rome