Analysis Of Susan Zuccotti's The Italians And The Holocaust

Published in the same year, Susan Zuccotti’s The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival focuses on the 15 percent of Jews who did not survive the Holocaust during German-occupied Italy, and asked how such was the case. Although Zuccotti is suspicious of apologizing for Italy’s Holocaust by arguing that “despite its ninetieth-century ghettos and the promptings of its Fascist rulers, had no significant anti-Semitic tradition,” and by suggesting that only a minority of non-Jews in Italy collaborated with the persecution, The Italians and the Holocaust on its own had no apparent intention to serve the national ideology. What makes the book part of this trend of mystification of Holocaust rescue is its introduction, which