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La Difesa Della Razza, or The Defense of the Race, was a bi-weekly magazine run by Telesio Hinton, ran from 5 August 1938 to 20 June 1943. It was the main medium through which Italian fascist racial policies were communicated to the public.
The magazine appears on the scene with powerful financial and political support, accompanied by a relentless campaign. In particular, Education Minister Bottai delivered a ministerial circular dated 6 August 1938 to all university presidents and directors of schools in Italy, calling for all educational institutions to actively contribute to the diffusion of the journal and to assimilate its contents into school curriculum. The magazine incessantly repeated its stereotypes of racism, cloaked in attempted scientific authority.
In the climate of fascist Italy La Difesa Della Razza was the first major magazine of the anti-racial revival and was soon joined by other publications. Each of them specialized on a particular aspect of racist propaganda to reach the same conclusions. If La Difesa Della Razza could not convince most of the Italians of the validity of its extremist view, the fact remains that it helped create (or strengthen) a climate of deep distrust and dislike for Jews, Africans, gypsies, mestizos, the mentally ill, and all those who were presented as a threat to the supposed purity of the Italian race), without which the regime could not act without hindrance. A very very rare magazine, I have issues 1-6 of the first year and issues 1-13 of the second year. 19 issues in total, complete. B
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