Episode #1.3
- Episode aired 1985
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Janet Graham
- Fascist Woman
- (as Janet Rasak)
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- TriviaMussolini's Italian Social Republic, also known as the Salò Republic, has divided Italians, including Fascist sympathisers. It was very different in many ways from the old Fascist Italy and controlled far less territory. After Mussolini was "sprung" by the Germans, they effectively treated him as a puppet ruler and Mussolini could not recruit some of the old guard Fascists for various reasons, some being reluctant to join and others trapped in the south in allied territory which officially controlled by King Victor Emmanuel. On the other hand, some Fascists saw it as a rump state or true Italy, where Mussolini was able to instigate true Fascism without being restrained by the king. Historians also debate how independent Mussolini was in this time, with some arguing he was a mere puppet and others saying that he appreciated German support to keep his program going. Either way, the Italian Social Republic was full of German troops, much more highly anti-Jewish than its predecessor, and those German troops carried out massacres against Italian civilians.
- GoofsBruno Mussolini is depicted as dying in 1935. In fact, he died in 1941.
- Quotes
Rachele Mussolini: [Looking at Claretta's big house] So... this is what a woman looks like when she is kept by the head of a nation... . look at me... after all I am only married to him.
Claretta Petacci: Don't you call me kept!
Rachele Mussolini: For the sake of Italy, signora, put an end to this tragic relationship.
Claretta Petacci: What has Italy got to do with it? Why don't you tell me to give him up for his sake and not for Italy's?
Rachele Mussolini: I take care of Benito Mussolini; he's my man.
Claretta Petacci: But he needs me, I'm his spiritual support.
Rachele Mussolini: Spiritual? You call that dress you're wearing, and those jewels spiritual?
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