Italian fascism and racism
Initially, Fascist Italy did not enact comprehensive racist policies like those policies which were enacted by its World War II Axis partner Nazi Germany. Italy's National Fascist Party leader, Benito Mussolini, expressed different views on the subject of race over the course of his career. In the 1920s, Mussolini stated concern over low birth rates of people of the white race across the world and warned that if the birth rates of whites were not improved that high birth rates among non-whites could lead to the white race being defeated in conflicts with non-white races. After the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the Italian Fascist government implemented strict racial segregation between whites and blacks in Ethiopia. In 1938, Fascist Italy enacted a set of comprehensive racial laws, that endorsed the Fascist "Manifesto of Race", the seventh point of which stated that "it is time that Italians proclaim themselves to be openly racist", although Mussolini privately said that the Manifesto was...
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