The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 19442010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many thousands of ItaliansJews and otherswere deported to concentration