The British helped put fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in power, a new book claims.
Benito Mussolini was the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1943. In 1938, his government passed anti-semitic laws with Mussolini himself writing an article that year which aligned Italy with the German concept of the Aryan race. It is thought that Mussolini was responsible for the death of one million people and the suffering of countless others. Now, a new book has claimed that the British government helped orchestrate his rise to power.
Although Mussolini’s career began working at socialist publications, he split from the party in 1914 and founded his own newspaper, Il Popolo d’Italia, “The People of Italy”.
His newspaper was pro-war during World War One and later became the main publication of the Fascist movement after the conflict ended in 1918.
Mussolini then rapidly rose to power, taking a Parliament seat as a deputy in 1921 with his party changing its name to the Partito Nazionale Fascista.
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