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The
National Fascist Party
was the ruling party of the
Kingdom of Italy
from 1922 to 1943. It was a
far-right
party and followed the ideology of
fascism
.
[1]
[2]
Benito Mussolini
founded the party in 1919 and served as its
chairman
(
Italian
:
Presidente del Partito Nazionale Fascista
) from 1919 to 1943. The party came to power after Mussolini led thousands of
Blackshirts
on a march in
Rome
and forced
King
Victor Emmanuel III
to appoint him as
Prime Minister
. Mussolini then banned all other political parties and established a
one-party
police state
, which lasted until he was thrown out of power by his own citizens and ordered to be arrested by the King in 1943. After Mussolini's arrest, the
National Fascist Party
was destroyed.
However, Mussolini was rescued from prison by German soldiers sent by
Adolf Hitler
in 1943, and was made the
head of state
(this time a member of the newly created
Republican Fascist Party
) of the
Italian Social Republic
, a
puppet state
whose real laws were made by the Nazis.
Mussolini was killed by Italian citizens in 1945 and the
Republican Fascist Party
was dissolved and
banned
after
World War 2
ended in 1945 .
- ↑
Smith, Denis Mack (1983).
Mussolini
. New York, NY: Vintage Books. pp. 43, 44.
ISBN
0394716582
.
- ↑
Raniolo, Francesco (2013).
I partiti politici
. Roma: Editori Laterza. pp. 116?117.