The Fascist police system was a complex, and well structured one, capable of exerting an oppressive control over the society that had a deleterious effect on social relations and on antifascist movements, due to the wide use of secret informers. Historians have therefore mainly analyzed the political side of fascismt repression, putting to the side the non-political repression of crime. More recent studies question the distance between the “political” and the “professional” – or “technical” – police dimensions of the Fascist regime. The article reviews the most recent research about the history of the Italian police from WWI to the foundation of he Republic, devoting particular attention to the Fascist rule and and the deep imprint that its police practices (use of intelligence investigations, as well as of anti-guerrilla warfare) left on the Republican police. If, on the one hand, the permanence in office of high police functionaries after the regime ended was not perceived as contradictory to the new constitutional framework, these methods turned out to be, on the other hand, highly questionable

La tecnica e la politica: le polizie speciali dal fascismo alla Repubblica / Castellano, Carolina. - In: PASSATO E PRESENTE. - ISSN 1120-0650. - 2019:107(2019), pp. 141-149.

La tecnica e la politica: le polizie speciali dal fascismo alla Repubblica

Carolina Castellano
2019

Abstract

The Fascist police system was a complex, and well structured one, capable of exerting an oppressive control over the society that had a deleterious effect on social relations and on antifascist movements, due to the wide use of secret informers. Historians have therefore mainly analyzed the political side of fascismt repression, putting to the side the non-political repression of crime. More recent studies question the distance between the “political” and the “professional” – or “technical” – police dimensions of the Fascist regime. The article reviews the most recent research about the history of the Italian police from WWI to the foundation of he Republic, devoting particular attention to the Fascist rule and and the deep imprint that its police practices (use of intelligence investigations, as well as of anti-guerrilla warfare) left on the Republican police. If, on the one hand, the permanence in office of high police functionaries after the regime ended was not perceived as contradictory to the new constitutional framework, these methods turned out to be, on the other hand, highly questionable
2019
La tecnica e la politica: le polizie speciali dal fascismo alla Repubblica / Castellano, Carolina. - In: PASSATO E PRESENTE. - ISSN 1120-0650. - 2019:107(2019), pp. 141-149.
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