Patriarchs
The materials in this theme highlight the commemoration of post-World War II Italy's neo-fascist leaders among the contemporary Italian far-right community.
Pino Rauti – Andare oltre
(Pino Rauti – Go Further)
A former volunteer for Benito Mussolini's Repubblica Sociale Italiana (Italian Social Republic; 1943-45), Pino Rauti was a leading figure among post-World War II Italy's neo-fascist community.
In 1956, at the Movimento Sociale Italiano's (Italian Social Movement, MSI) fifth national congress in…
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Paolo Signorelli – Le idee non si uccidono
(Paolo Signorelli – You Cannot Kill Ideas)
During the 1950s, Paolo Signorelli was a branch leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano's (Italian Social Movement, MSI) university-level youth group, the Fronte Universitario d'Azione Nazionale (National Action University Front), at Sapienza University in Rome. He was involved with the far-right…
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Lo chiamavano "Peppino"
(They Called Him "Peppino")
Giuseppe Ciarrapico – AKA "Peppino" – was an Italian entrepreneur, politician, and far right propagandist for Giorgio Almirante's Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement, MSI). Born in 1934, Ciarrapico was too young to have participated in Benito Mussolini's twenty-year dictatorship…
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"The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so."
— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century