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Italy’s Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and Clara Petacci, his mistress, were executed by partisans in the northern Italian village of Giulino di Mezzegra on the 28th of April, 1945. Belie…
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On this day: Fascist Italy Banned Foreign Words
Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini with Adolf Hitler
On the 23rd of July, 1929, Italy’s Fascist government banned foreign words.
This was part of a larger act of the “Italianisation” of minorities in Italy and surrounding territories, as well as the annexation of nearby countries.
Naturally, this policy included banning the teaching of minority languages, even for people who were not ethnic Italians.