Far right parties and the Jews in the 1930s: the antisemitic turn of Italian fascism reconsidered through a comparison with the French case

The Italian fascist turn to antisemitism is a controversial topic. This article through a transnational approach that that compares the French and Italian cases aims to show that it is a mistake to equate Mussolini's movement with Hitler's National Socialism with regard to the 'Jewish question' as Fascism is not necessarily interlinked with antisemitism. A key factor driving Mussolini toward antisemitism was the increasing influence that Nazi Germany exerted on the entire far-right movement in Europe after 1933.