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Framed In Death: The Historical Memory Of Galeazzo Ciano, Paige Y. Durgin

Senior Theses and Projects

My thesis examines the Italian Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano. Using his extensive diaries, which he kept from 1936 to 1942, as the basis of my research, I explore the political weaknesses and failures of fascist Italy that contributed to her collapse.

Mussolini maintained that Italy and Germany shared a common destiny united by the wrongdoings each suffered at the end of World War One. In reality, the Axis alliance was mired in competition and distrust. Although Ciano initially supported the partnership, after a series of events- Hitler’s dismissal of the 1938 Munich Pact, the signing of the Pact of Steel …

Envisioning The Italian Mediterranean Fascist Policy In Steamship Publicity, 1922-1942, Maura Elise Hametz

History Faculty Publications

Depictions of the Mediterranean Sea figured prominently in steamship lines' publicity during the years of Fascist rule in Italy. These images of the sea promoted and publicized Italian foreign policy aims and aspirations as they shifted over the years from 1922 to 1942. At the same time, the images' emphasis on Italy's maritime heritage provided a rallying point for Italian national identity. Mussolini's government used Italian associations with the Mediterranean to foster a national as opposed to regional consciousness and to project abroad a vision of a culturally-unified and powerful Italy.

The Italian people long for the Mediterranean, ... the …

The Marketing Of Mussolini : American Magazines And Mussolini, 1922-1935, Anthony F. Ambrogi

Master's Theses

Until the Halo-Ethiopian War, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the American press had a symbiotic relationship. Mussolini used his charisma and journalistic skills to put himself in the limelight of the American foreign press, and whether they loved him or hated him, American periodicals relished the constant flow of news and sensationalism from Rome. This analysis examines the rise of Fascism and Mussolini in Italy and his efforts to market himself to the press, especially the American press. It then reviews American magazines from 1922 until Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 and their varying attitudes toward II Duce. Popular …

Traveler To Arcadia: Margaret Bourke-White In Italy, 1943-1944, Randall I. Bond

The Courier

DURING the nineteenth century, American artists, writers, and intellectuals flocked to Italy, seeking an escape from the exigencies of the modern world. To them, Italy was a dream realm, a golden Arcadia. Some, however, like the painter Thomas Cole, saw through the dream and brought back to America a stark message about the displacement of nations and the fall of empires. In the 183os, on the eve of America's westward expansion, Cole painted his Course of Empire series, tracing the progress of Rome from an Arcadian State, to the Consummation of Empire, to Destruction, finally ending in Desolation. Cole was …

Italian Fascist Party Identification Card

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Green identification booklet, image of Mussolini in helmet, large black letters read “PNF” and “XIX,” marked “No. 142139” in black print. Inside stamped twice in blue ink, includes identification photo of woman. Back includes one green and one orange Mussolini postage stamp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Wartime card belonging to a woman. Mussolini stamps.

Hitler And Mussolini Meeting In Munich In June, 1940

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Black and white photograph of Hitler and Mussolini standing in the backseat of a black Mercedez Benz, with a crowd of soldiers in the street behind them. Back: Blank postcard lines. Upper righthand corner has a red a French stamp for the Legion Tricolore, which shows a man on the left in profile, and a group of soldiers. On top of that is a black circular handstamp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Real photo postcard of Hitler and Mussolini in the former's Mercedes Benz in June, 1940 with French Legion Tricolore stamp which were formed by the collaborationist …