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Rodrigo proposes in this chapter a critical review of the concept ‘fascist warfare’ through the comparative analysis of fascist participation in two civil wars: Spain, 1936–1939 and Italy, 1943–1945. The first was fascist intervention in a regular war aimed at the fascistization of Spain. The second involved an irregular antipartisan war, projected as an extreme form of purification of the nation. Despite concluding that there is no single, pre-defined model of fascist war, the chapter shows how in both cases civil war served as the enabling frame for fascistization, radicalization, cleansing of the nation and the convergence of society with the fascist utopia.
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Rodrigo, J. (2019). Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini’s Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936–1945. In: Alonso, M., Kramer, A., Rodrigo, J. (eds) Fascist Warfare, 1922–1945. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27648-5_5
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