‘This Was a King Who Betrayed His Country:’ President of Italian Jewish Community Speaks Out on Victor Emmanuel III Reburial Controversy | Algemeiner

Seventy-three years after the end of the Second World War, the gallery of European leaders who proudly collaborated with the Nazi German regime remains firmly established. France had Marshal Philippe Pétain. Romania had the former army officer and prime minister Ion Antonescu. And Italy, of course, had Benito Mussolini, the former socialist parliamentarian who reinvented himself as “Il Duce” at the head of Italy’s fascist movement.