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Oct 22, 2026
Alastair BudgeHOST
Well, the first thing to stress is that Italy is a relatively new country.
Alastair BudgeHOST
It was, as you may know, a collection of small estates until 1861, when it became the Kingdom of Italy.
Alastair BudgeHOST
And in those early years, it was a poor, largely agricultural economy.
Alastair BudgeHOST
The chaos of fascism and the Second World War didn't do much to help, and in 1945, the country was practically in ruins.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
I think it's like bang smack in the middle of the Renaissance that the Pope moved to the Palazzo del Quirinelli.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
Now, all the while he's ruling over these papal states until the Kingdom of Italy takes over in 1870.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
So they just kind of used to be like these little...
Katie CharlwoodHOST
You know, like, there was Papal States, there was Principalities, there was all this kind of stuff.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
And then, I think actually the Papal States come into play in, I think, at least one of the Assassin's Creed games back when it was like Ezio, Ezio Auditore di Forense.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
Yes, so, yes.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
The Papal States exist up until 1870 when, you know, they are dissolved, right? Because the Kingdom of Italy is now, like, the unification of Italy.
Katie CharlwoodHOST
And so the King of Italy moves into the Palazzo and the Pope just kind of slaps back into the Vatican again.
Simon WhistlerHOST
And of course, this would include Italians.
Simon WhistlerHOST
following this up in october 1943 allied leadership set up the united nations war crimes commission or unwcc an independent body to investigate evidence of war crimes and identify potential perpetrators and one month later on november 1 1943 the leaders of the uk us and ussr adopted the moscow declaration in which they explicitly agreed that italian war criminals had to be brought to justice the period from 1943 to 1948 the unwcc identified over 1200 italian nationals suspected of having committed extensive and systematic crimes in territories occupied by the fascist regime and then there were the fascist concentration camps the extent of the atrocities here was little known at the time but in recent years the efforts of researchers such as andrea gissapini and roman herzog have brought to life some rather poignant examples In a nutshell, from 1922 to 1943, while Benito Mussolini was the head of the government of the Kingdom of Italy, fascist authorities administered a total of 135 concentration camps, 85 forced labor camps, 651 prisons holding both common criminals and political prisoners, as well as 107 prisoner of war camps.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Going over all of this in any real detail would make this video both demonetized and age-restricted, let alone be many hours long, so we're going to focus on just two examples of the hundreds.
Simon WhistlerHOST
The first is the camp of Danaan, built in Somalia at the end of 1935 to detain POWs from the Italo-Ethiopian War, as well as dissident elite locals loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie.
Jason HarrisHOST
Nationalism spread throughout Western and Central Europe.
Jason HarrisHOST
A series of uprisings and deft diplomatic maneuvers consolidated several independent states into the new Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed in 1861.
Jason HarrisHOST
Germany emerged ten years later through a similar process that unified more than two dozen independent states.
Jason HarrisHOST
Elsewhere, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were struggling.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
In the late seventeen hundreds, the papal states were larger than today's Netherlands and even included an exclave in France.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
But this legacy came to an abrupt end on September twentieth, eighteen seventy, when troops of the newly born Kingdom of Italy marched into Rome and captured it following a brief battle with papal forces.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
The kingdom did offer the papacy ownership and non-sovereign control over the Leonine City, the area that encompasses today's Vatican City, as well as a sizable annual stipend to pay for the operations of the Holy See and broad guarantees of sovereignty in their operations.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
After all, the kingdom still needed to play nice with the church as Italy was a predominantly Catholic nation, meaning many of its residents were loyal to the pope.
GauravHOST
Whereas the Italian royalists wanted to expel the French and make Rome the capital of the new kingdom.
GauravHOST
But yeah, he does... participate and then by the age of 24-25 he is promoted to a captain and is held in the what do you call the general staff and as part of like you could call it the war plans he has a study for potential wars with the austrian empire and actually goes and tours the borders of what you would call as north and northeastern italy And it's not unfounded because I think 1866, the Kingdom of Italy and Prussia were fighting the Austrian Empire.
GauravHOST
That's where we also had the Battle of Koniggratz that I just briefly mentioned by name, which was the German War, right? Simon, just correct me if that's also one of the names.
GauravHOST
Yeah, the German-German War.
Rhiannon GiddensHOST
Those who felt that they were still afflicted could make the pilgrimage again on June 28th, St. Paul's Feast Day.
Mauro DuranteGUEST
In the final years of tarantism, you know, having a, a tarantato, victim of the tarantula spider, in your family was, uh, shameful because with the arrival of television and, uh, of the Italian Republic unity or even the, you know, the, the Kingdom of Italy unity, then, uh, they were starting to...
Mauro DuranteGUEST
They needed to make, um, Italy after, and, and Italians, so they decided to use Italian as the language as opposed to all the dialects that we have all over Italy.
Mauro DuranteGUEST
And so they were starting to make fun of everything which was considered ignorant and poor and as, uh, something which belonged to the past.
Decoding TrollsHOST
In April 22, when France hesitated over Crimea, I made the point as a joke, perhaps Italy could retake Avignon or Nice.
Decoding TrollsHOST
It's basically Rome, and Nice belonged to Italy, the Kingdom of Italy, until about 1870, there was a referendum there, and they decided to stay in France.
Decoding TrollsHOST
Nobody in Rome thinks the Caesars gave Italy a claim on Avignon or that Pericles gives Greece a claim on Sicily.
Decoding TrollsHOST
The glory of the ancients belongs to all their descendants and to the land that raised them.
Regina BlessHOST
[upbeat music] Bringing you Today in History and some global observances.
Regina BlessHOST
On this day in 1943, the Kingdom of Italy declared war on its former Axis partner, Germany, joining the Allies in World War II.
Regina BlessHOST
Looking at its key details, Prime Minister Marshal Pietro announced the decision after Benito Mussolini was disposed and arrested, and Italy signed a secret armistice with the Allies in September 1943.
Regina BlessHOST
The formal declaration of war was handed over by the Italian ambassador in Madrid to the German ambassador at 3:00 PM Greenwich Time.
Thomas777GUEST
He, he was in serious financial difficulties.
Thomas777GUEST
Um, his, uh, some of his church contacts, you know, secured him a job, um, as a cataloger in the Vatican Library, which probably saved his life, and that's where he spent the next, the, the next 14 years until, uh, until the collapse of the, of, uh, the Kingdom of Italy.
Thomas777GUEST
I mean, the, the rump state in '43.
Thomas777GUEST
I mean, the rump state of the Salò Republic endured.
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Thomas777GUEST
Sometimes it'd be, like, an English translation that was imprecise.
Thomas777GUEST
But a whole lot of this material, um, relevant to the right or relevant to the old resistance in Europe was coming out of Italy.
Thomas777GUEST
And, um, you know, New Order's publications, they very much valorized the Third Reich and, um, the Kingdom of Italy and their war dead, you know, and the independent state of Croatia and, like, all the Axis powers.
Thomas777GUEST
Um, they also, they had links with the, the Boer Republic and Rhodesia also.
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