You might think it’s news from Absurdistan when you read that 80 years after the liberation from Nazi barbarism, municipalities and larger cities in Europe are still finally taking the step of revoking the honorary citizenship of fascist representatives.
At the end of February, the northern Italian municipality of Salò decided to revoke Benito Mussolini’s honorary citizenship. On the one hand, it is of great symbolic importance that this municipality has finally taken this step, as Salò was the last retreat of the Italian fascists after Mussolini was deposed and large parts of the country were liberated by the Allies and the Italian resistance. Entirely dependent on the Wehrmacht, which had occupied the northern half of Italy since September 1943, Mussolini and his vassals established the “Republic of Salò” in the small town in the foothills of the Alps, a puppet state by the grace of Nazi Germany. It was officially called the Repubblica Sociale Italiana, or RSI for short. This ostensibly “social” state was the radicalized and unleashed version of fascist rule over the whole of Italy, including the persecution of Jews and deportations.
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