Rome is to remove from its
streets the names of people who signed the 1938 race manifesto,
political sources said Monday.
"We hope to rename the streets by the end of this year,"
Mayor Virginia Raggi said.
The Manifesto of Race, sometimes known as the Charter of Race
or Racial Manifesto, was a manifesto published on 14 July 1938
which prepared the enactment, in October 1938, of the Racial
Laws in Fascist Italy.
The antisemitic laws stripped the Jews of Italian citizenship
and governmental and professional positions.
The manifesto demonstrated the influence Adolf Hitler had
over Benito Mussolini after Italy had become allied with Nazi
Germany.
Among the 42 signers of the Manifesto of Race were medical
doctors Sebastiano Visco and Nicola Fende, anthropologist
Luciano Cipriani, zoologist Edoardo Zavattari and statistician
Francesco Savorgnan.
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