Fascist laws that incorporated Nazi
theories on the Aryan and Jewish 'races" were not racial laws
but racist ones, Premier Mario Draghi said Thursday.
The laws, which among other things banned Jews from public life,
paved the way for "a new season of discrimination and violence,"
Draghi said at the Shoah Museum in Milan.
They led to the "suspension and suppression of political and
civil rights. The political use of hate, which eroded the
foundations of our democracy".
Draghi thanked Holocaust survivor and Life Senator Liliana Segre
for her work in keeping the memory of the Shoah alive.
The Italian racial laws were a set of laws promulgated by
Fascist Italy from 1938 to 1943 to enforce racial discrimination
in Italy, directed mainly against Italian Jews.
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