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Propaganda for Italian soldiers in occupied Yugoslavia combined themes of Catholic universalism and humanitarianism with Fascist ethno-nationalism that demonised Slavs as the barbaric Other. Despite their apparent contradictions, these themes reflected both the deeper history of Catholic-Fascist relations and the immediate concerns of Italian military commands.
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Analysing content from an underutilised Italian field newspaper, this paper reinforces our growing understanding that propaganda responded both to top-down objectives and bottom-up pressures. The increasing role of Catholic themes in Italian military propaganda anticipated post-Fascist concepts of national identity and civic culture in Italy.
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This page is a summary of: Religion, race, and the nation in La Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943, Modern Italy, October 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/mit.2018.35.
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