What if Mussolini sided with the allies? Would fascism be portrayed in a better light than nazism?

Not really. Salò Italy contributed as much as any other occupied nation, but the Italian Jews were mostly interned in a fashion not dissimilar to the American-Japanese internment in the US before 1943. Mussolini wasn't exactly a Jewish sympathizer, to be sure, but he didn't see the point of persecuting to such an extreme point people who were mostly integrated in Italian society.
Check the link I posted earlier, this isnt accurate.
 
Check the link I posted earlier, this isnt accurate.
It's absolutely accurate. I quote:

In “The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy,” author Simon Levis Sullam examined the fate of more than 6,000 Italian Jews who were tracked down, deported, and murdered during the last two years of World War II.
The Holocaust was implemented in Italy beginning in 1943, by which point the population had been absorbing anti-Semitic vitriol for half a decade.
The chapter “Hunting Down Jews in Florence” outlines several roundups of Jews that took place in November of 1943.
 
It's absolutely accurate. I quote:
None of those quotes confirm what you are saying?

The first talks about the SRI jews being deported and murdered, not being interred like "american -japanese internment"

The second quote indeed calls it the holocaust, which unless you are saying American-Japanese internment was similar again, is again against your point.

The third quote is just neutral.
 
None of those quotes confirm what you are saying?

The first talks about the SRI jews being deported and murdered, not being interred like "american -japanese internment"

The second quote indeed calls it the holocaust, which unless you are saying American-Japanese internment was similar again, is again against your point.

The third quote is just neutral.
Interned like the American-Japanese internment before the last two years of the war. Now, I might be mathematically-challenged, but "two year before the end of the war" accounts to 1943. Italy was occupied by the Germans after the Armistice at Cassibile, in the second half of 1943, and this is when the extermination of Italian Jews picked up.

You might have missed it, but this happened after the Armistice.
 
Interned like the American-Japanese internment before the last two years of the war. Now, I might be mathematically-challenged, but "two year before the end of the war" accounts to 1943. Italy was occupied by the Germans after the Armistice at Cassibile, in the second half of 1943, and this is when the extermination of Italian Jews picked up.

You might have missed it, but this happened after the Armistice.
I see what you are trying to say now, and its weird in context of what you initially responded to of mine. Since my post was concerning post 1943 and you responded "not really" and then went on to discuss American Japanese internment, it looked like you were arguing that SRI only interred on AJI levels.
If you want to seperate the SRI as "not Italy" then fair enough, but considering my posts have been about Mussolini, that too is sort of redundent.
 
I see what you are trying to say now, and its weird in context of what you initially responded to of mine. Since my post was concerning post 1943 and you responded "not really" and then went on to discuss American Japanese internment, it looked like you were arguing that SRI only interred on AJI levels.
If you want to seperate the SRI as "not Italy" then fair enough, but considering my posts have been about Mussolini, that too is sort of redundent.
Mostly, that's the argument. No one in Italy tries to dodge the Holocaust. What does happen is, as you said, separating the SRI as "not Italy", which is not quite true but not quite false either; the SRI was heavily occupied, and while collaborationists existed and had a heavy hand in the rounding up of Italian Jews, the operation was mostly a German one, as the comparatively better conditions before the Armistice prove.

Now, that doesn't absolve Italy of the guilt - especially because Jews were treated decently, but Slovenians and Croatians pretty emphatically were not.
 
Mostly, that's the argument. No one in Italy tries to dodge the Holocaust. What does happen is, as you said, separating the SRI as "not Italy", which is not quite true but not quite false either; the SRI was heavily occupied, and while collaborationists existed and had a heavy hand in the rounding up of Italian Jews, the operation was mostly a German one, as the comparatively better conditions before the Armistice prove.

Now, that doesn't absolve Italy of the guilt - especially because Jews were treated decently, but Slovenians and Croatians pretty emphatically were not.
Other than the occupation and seperation of the SRI from Italy part (of which I have given my stance earlier), yes? None of this is in disagreement with what I said
 
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