To: d[-_-]b who wrote (577604 ) 7/24/2010 5:57:47 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572361 A primer on Judeofascism:A real life in Fascist Italy: Ettore Ovazza The Ovazza family were a successful Jewish banking family based in Turin. The state of Piedmont, in Northern Italy had a long history of toleration and the Ovazzas had been strong supporters of Italian unification in the 19th century. Ettore Ovazza’s father had been proud of his Italian and Jewish background and had the words ‘Fatherland, Faith and Family’ carved on his tombstone. He had, along with his three sons, voluntarily enlisted to fight in the First World War. The family were well integrated into Italian society and, while they followed Jewish traditions such as celebrating Passover, they spoke Italian rather than Hebrew at home. Ettore Ovazza had studied law at university and then travelled to Germany with a view to a diplomatic career. At the outbreak of war he had volunteered and trained as an officer, only to suffer the humiliating defeat at Caporetto. His patriotic letters from the front were published in 1928 and received general praise. After the war, the city of Turin was badly affected by the turmoil of the Biennio Rosso with repeated strikes, lockouts and violent demonstrations. The Ovazza family were alarmed by these developments. Aged 30 when Mussolini came to power, Ettore Ovazza was a committed Fascist from the start. He was not unusual in this respect. Two Jews held office in the Fascist government and 10 000 were members of the Fascist Party, about one in three of the adult Jewish population. Ovazza took part in the March on Rome in October 1922 and in 1929 he was invited to meet Mussolini as a part of a delegation of Jewish war veterans. [...] (excerpted from a MSFT Word document) Footnote: Ettore Ovazza is (one of) the great-grandfather(s) of John Elkann, CEO of Fiat and heir to the late Gianni Agnelli... Somehow, Fascism was the Frankenstein monster of Italian Jewry --so great, so good... until it turned against its creators.