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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2002 16(3):357-375; doi:10.1093/hgs/16.3.357
© 2002 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Guido Landra and the Office of Racial Studies in Fascist Italy

Aaron Gillette1

1 Strayer University

The early history of the Racial Office of the Ministry of Popular Culture offers a window into the politics of official racism under Mussolini. The Office was charged with disseminating racist propaganda throughout Italy, as well as with establishing liaison with corresponding racial propaganda offices of friendly governments. Guido Landra, the first director of the Racial Office, vigorously acted to fulfill his mandate, leading to the creation of a secret Italo-German Committee on Racial Questions. The budding integration of Italian and German racial propaganda was cut short when Mussolini decided, in February 1939, to pursue a racial ideology considerably different from that professed by the German National Socialists.


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