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The debate about persecutory Fascist legislation, in its anti-Jewish and racial-colonial¹ articulation, has represented one of the most innovative branches of historical research in Italy in the last twenty years.² In 1988, the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of anti-Jewish legislation marked the symbolic beginning of fruitful studies on the racial character of Fascism. It allowed the integration, development, and refinement of the research carried out for a long time only by Renzo De Felice and Meir Michaelis.³

The actual enforcement of persecutory legislation, especially against the Italian Jewish minority, has been an object of detailed study…