Posted on 01/14/2024 11:29:11 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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A viral social media video shows hundreds of men dressed in black standing in a central street in Rome and performing the Nazi salute several times.
The gathering was held in memory of three neo-fascist activists who were killed in 1978.
The three were members of the ‘Italian Social Movement’ and two of them were killed, presumably, by left-wing activists, with the third killed by a police officer after a riot broke out in that spot.
The video has caused controversy in Italy. Italian authorities have announced they are opening a criminal investigation.
The ceremony is held each year on January 7th, but the participants did not use the Nazi salute, or Heil, until this year.
Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, has participated in the ceremony several times, albeit before taking office.
everal senior members of her party have also taken part in the ceremony, but according to their staff did so only to leave wreaths for the memory of the murdered and left the area before the salute."
The head of the Italian opposition parties called for the Prime Minister to break up the neofascist organizations active in Italy that performed the salute.
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Riefenstahl’s films and Ezra Pound’s writings certainly reflected an aesthetic of aggregate order and symmetry. But as artists, their main concern was aestheticism. Il Duce, however, was looking away from international socialism, because he found no unity between international workers, who cheerfully killed each other in the trenches. So he looked instead to nationalism, and to the creation of nationalistic myths, in order to unify all Italians, Germans, or Spaniards, strictly as an example. He wasn’t concerned with aesthetics or even truth, so long as the nationalistic myths had the desired effect of unifying large numbers of men into one massive force.
Hitler emulated him, and created a much more vicious form of national socialism than Mussolini had envisioned. Franco emulated him, and created a relatively milder form of the same philosophy. All three became anti-communist, because they didn’t want the competition.
One important limiting factor was also the need of the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese fascist regimes to make peace with the Catholic Church.
According to Conrad Heiden’s Der Fuhrer, there was a period when the Nazi Party was taking over everything, but when they tried to take over the churches, Von Hindenberg let his displeasure be known, and Hitler slammed on the brakes. But the Protestant Church was not as strong in Germany at that time as the Catholic Church was in those other countries.
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