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Grand Council Of Fascism
The Grand Council of Fascism (, also translated "Fascist Grand Council") was the main body of Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy, which held and applied great power to control the institutions of government. It was created as a body of the National Fascist Party in 1922, and became a state body on 9 December 1928. The council usually met at the Palazzo Venezia, Rome, which was also the seat of the head of the Italian government. The Council became extinct following a series of events in 1943, in which Benito Mussolini was voted out as the Prime Minister of Italy. Powers of the Council Essentially, the council held these powers: * The power to elect the Fascist Party deputies, the nomination for the Party Secretary and other party leaders, the approval of the party statutes and the power regarding the party's policy. * The power to elect the Crown's line of succession including the choice of the heir to the throne, the right of the Crown, the power to choose possible suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblem Of Italy
The emblem of the Italian Republic () was formally adopted by the newly formed Italian Republic on 5 May 1948. Although often referred to as a coat of arms (or in Italian), it is an emblem as it was not designed to conform to traditional heraldic rules. The emblem is used extensively by the Italian government. The emblem, shaped as a Roman wreath, comprises a white five-pointed star, the (English: "Star of Italy"), which is the oldest national symbol of Italy, since it dates back to the Graeco-Roman tradition, with a thin red border, superimposed upon a five-spoked cogwheel, standing between an olive branch to the left side and an oak branch to the right side; the branches are in turn bound together by a red ribbon with the inscription in "" in Roman square capitals. The armorial bearings of the House of Savoy, blazoned ''gules a cross argent'', were previously in use by the former Kingdom of Italy; the supporters, on either side ''a lion rampant Or'', were replace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Führerprinzip
The (, ''Leader Principle'') was the basis of authority, executive authority in the government of Nazi Germany. It placed the Führer's word above all written law, and meant that Law of Nazi Germany, government policies, decisions, and officials Gleichschaltung, all served to realize his will. In practice, the ''Führerprinzip'' gave Adolf Hitler supreme power over the ideology and policies of Nazi Party, his political party; this form of Cult of personality, personal dictatorship was a basic characteristic of Nazism. The state itself received "political authority" from Hitler, and the ''Führerprinzip'' stipulated that only what the Führer "commands, allows, or does not allow is our conscience," with Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party, party leaders pledging "eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler." According to Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, the Nazi German political system meant "unconditional authority downwards, and responsibility upwards." At each level of the pyramidal power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerarca
The ranks and insignia of the National Fascist Party shows the hierarchical structure of ranks and titles bestowed by the PNF. Alberto Aquarone, ''L'organizzazione dello Stato totalitario'', pp. 582-583, Einaudi 2003. ISBN 88-06-16522-4 ''Gerarca'' During the Fascist rule in Italy, a (, plural: ''gerarchi'') was a higher officer of the National Fascist Party (PNF). The highest ''gerarchi'', up to the Federal Secretary, were members of the National Council of the PNF and of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. The secretary and members of the National Directorate of the PNF were members of the Grand Council of Fascism The Grand Council of Fascism (, also translated "Fascist Grand Council") was the main body of Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy, which held and applied great power to control the institutions of government. It was created as a body of the .... A ''Ras'' (from the homonymous Ethiopian title) was a gerarca dominating in one province. So, for example, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tullio Cianetti
Tullio Cianetti (20 August 1899, in Assisi – 8 April 1976, in Maputo, Mozambique) was an Italian fascist politician who was well known for his work with the trade unions. The son of a farmer, Cianetti was conscripted in 1917 and served as a lieutenant in the Italian Army until 1921.A.T. Lane, ''Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders, Volume 1'', 1995, p. 205 Returning to Assisi, he worked as a teacher, whilst also helping to found the fascio in the town, becoming secretary in 1922. He was moved to Terni to organise the syndicate before being promoted to captain and appointed regional secretary for syndicates in Umbria in 1924. The same year he stepped away from fascism for a time following the death of Giacomo Matteotti and suspicion began to arise that he was too left-wing. However, by 1925 he had returned as secretary of syndicates in Syracuse, before being promoted to major and going on to hold similar roles in Carrara, Messina, Matera, and Treviso. In 1931 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Gottardi
Luciano Gottardi (18 February 1899 – 11 January 1944) was an Italian Fascist politician and trade unionist. Biography The son of a small farmer, he participated in the First World War initially as a private in the telegraph troops of the Royal Italian Army and later as a cavalry second lieutenant. After the war he enrolled in the faculty of economic and commercial sciences of the University of Trieste, but was unable to complete his studies. He joined the Fascist movement in 1920, participating in Trieste in the protests against the Italian Army’s intervention against the Regency of Carnaro (during which he was slightly wounded and arrested), and later in the march on Rome. After the establishment of the Fascist regime, during the 1920s and 1930s, he held a number of offices within Fascist trade unions in Trieste, Bari, Rome, Como, Florence, Treviso and Caltanissetta. This sometimes brought him into conflict with the employers, which he accused of being excessively gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Pareschi
Carlo Pareschi (19 August 1898 – 11 January 1944) was an Italian Fascist politician, member of the Grand Council of Fascism and minister of agriculture of the Kingdom of Italy from 1941 to 1943. Biography A renowned agronomist, he fought in World War I as lieutenant in the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment, earning a Bronze Medal of Military Valour. After the war, he joined the Fascist Party in the early 1920s. From 1928 to 1932 he was general secretary of the Fascist Confederation of Farmers, and in 1933 he became a member of the Grand Council of Fascism, although he did not personally attend its sessions during the 1930s. In 1941, during World War II, he volunteered for the front and was sent to North Africa with the rank of artillery Captain, but was recalled after a few months to be appointed president of the Fascist Confederation of Farmers and then Minister of Agriculture. He attended the Grand Council of Fascism for the first time on 25 July 1943, when he was among thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Marinelli
Giovanni Marinelli (18 October 1879 – 11 January 1944) was an Italian Fascism, Italian Fascist political leader. Biography Marinelli was born in Adria, Veneto. A wealthy man, Marinelli contributed to Fascist success by financing the March on Rome. As secretary of the National Fascist Party (PNF), he created the ''Ceka'', a secret police organization established on the model of the Soviet Union, Soviet Cheka. The ''Ceka'' soon established itself as a Terrorism, terrorist squad, and was behind the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, a prominent member of the opposition to the Fascist Italy, Fascist régime. Tried as instigator of the murder of Matteotti in November 1925, Marinelli was defended by Roberto Farinacci, and eventually sentenced to a light punishment. His close friendship with Benito Mussolini ensured that he did not serve the full term. He remained out of the spotlight during most of the next two decades of Fascist rule, and appears to have been involved in the crus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verona Trial
The Verona Trial () was a show trial held in January 1944 in the Italian Social Republic (RSI) to punish the 19 members of the Grand Council of Fascism who had voted for Benito Mussolini's removal from power in the Kingdom of Italy. Six of them had been captured by Mussolini's forces and were present for the trial. Five of them were sentenced to death, whereas the sixth one received a 30-year sentence. The remaining members who were not captured were all sentenced to death in absentia. The event Following the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Grand Council of Fascism voted, on 25 July 1943, with 19 against 8 votes and one abstention, to strip Mussolini of his function as ''Duce''. When Mussolini refused to accept this decision and his dismissal by the king, he was arrested. In September 1943, German paratroopers rescued Mussolini from his captors via the Gran Sasso raid. He was then installed as the leader of the Italian Social Republic, effectively a puppet state of Nazi Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Badoglio
Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino ( , ; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956), was an Italian general during both World Wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa. With the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, he became Prime Minister of Italy. Early life and career Badoglio was born in 1871. His father, Mario Badoglio, was a modest landowner, and his mother, Antonietta Pittarelli, was of middle-class background. On 5 October 1888 he was admitted to the Royal Military Academy in Turin. He received the rank of second lieutenant in 1890. In 1892, he finished his studies and was promoted to first lieutenant. After completing his studies, he served with the Regio Esercito (Italian Royal Army) from 1892, at first as a lieutenant (''tenente'') in artillery. Badoglio was involved in the First Italo-Ethiopian War and the Italo-Turkish War. First World War At the beginning of Italian participation in the First World War, he was a lieut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Emmanuel III Of Italy
Victor Emmanuel III (; 11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947) was King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946. A member of the House of Savoy, he also reigned as Emperor of Ethiopia from 1936 to 1941 and King of the Albanians from 1939 to 1943, following the Italian invasions of Ethiopia and Albania. During his reign of nearly 46 years, which began after the assassination of his father Umberto I, the Kingdom of Italy became involved in two world wars. His reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, fall of the Fascist regime. The first fourteen years of Victor Emmanuel's reign were dominated by prime minister Giovanni Giolitti, who focused on industrialization and passed several democratic reforms, such as the introduction of universal male suffrage. In foreign policy, Giolitti's Italy distanced itself from the fellow members of the Triple Alliance (1882), Triple Alliance (the German Empire and Austria-Hungary) and coloni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio De Bono
Emilio De Bono (19 March 1866 – 11 January 1944) was an Italian general, fascist activist, marshal, war criminal, and member of the Fascist Grand Council (''Gran Consiglio del Fascismo''). De Bono fought in the Italo-Turkish War, the First World War and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. He was one of the key figures behind Italy's anti-partisan policies in Libya, such as the use of poison gas and concentration camps, which resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians and have been described as genocidal. After voting for the ousting of Benito Mussolini, De Bono and five others were arrested and tried for treason at the Verona trial. All of the men were found guilty, with De Bono and four others being executed by firing squad the following day. Early life and career De Bono was born in Cassano d'Adda, a son of Giovanni de Bono and descendant of the Counts of Barlassina, and Elisa Bazzi. His family "suffered under the Austrian yoke". He entered the Royal Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galeazzo Ciano
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari ( , ; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944), was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943. During this period, he was widely seen as Mussolini's most probable successor as head of government. He was the son of Admiral (rank), Admiral Costanzo Ciano, a founding member of the National Fascist Party; father and son both took part in Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922. Ciano saw action in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–36) and was appointed Foreign Minister on his return. Following a series of Axis defeats in the Second World War, Ciano began pushing for Italy's exit, and he was dismissed from his post as a result. He then served as ambassador to the Holy See, Vatican. In July 1943, Ciano was among the members of the Grand Council of Fascism that forced Mussolini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
