Word: ovazza
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Italian Jews eventually learned what happened to their coreligionists elsewhere under Nazi rule. Yet even after Mussolini approved the racial laws of 1938, which shatteringly demoted Jews to second-class citizenship, many naively clung to the belief that "it can't happen here." Ettore Ovazza of Turin, leader of the country's Jewish Fascists, remained a true believer until the very end -- perhaps even as he was shot dead by an SS officer while trying to escape to Switzerland in September 1943. A half-Jewish writer whose nom de plume was Pitigrilli converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Fascist...
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