Did Benito Mussolini hate Jews

Answer 1

No, Mussolini did not hate Jews. In fact, he had the support of prominent, wealthy Italian-Jewish families. However, Mussolini's ally, Hitler, was heavily anti-semetic. This forced Mussolini to abide Hitler's rules, and when Nazi Germany occupied Northern Italy, Italian-Jews were rounded up and shipped off to concentration camps.

Answer 2

Benito Mussolini was a Fascist, as was Francisco Franco of Spain, António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal and Jozef Tiso of Slovakia. The philosophies are similar, but not exactly alike. If you take Fascism and add the idea of racism, racial superiority, extreme ethnic nationalism and anti-semitism to it you get Nazism, i.e

Adolf Hitler of Germany, Ante Pavelić of Croatia, Engelbert Dollfuß of Austria, Ferenc Szálasi of Hungary, Ion Antonescu of Romania. Dollfuß, Franco, Salazar, Pavelić later added Roman Catholic fundamentalism into the mix.

Answer 3

no Mussolini was not as anti-semetic as Hitler he didnt really want to make any waves internationally.

Agreed. The Italian Jews were persecuted in some ways, but they were not killed until after Mussolini was overthrown and the Germans moved in to occupy Italy.

• The American poet Ezra Pound was anti-semitic, and he did anti-Jewish radio Propaganda for Mussolini. Unlike Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, and Lord Haw Haw, Pound was not put on trial after the war ended.

• After capturing the Jewish Battalion at Bir Hachim, Rommel was ordered by Berlin to give them special attention (kill them secretly), but instead he added them to the Allied prisoners taken by the Italians, so that they would not be killed.

Answer 4

NO. Mussolini was an Italian Catholic.