In 1972 “The Godfather” premiered in movie theaters across the United States and world. We saw Don Corleone control government officials, movie stars, and others like puppets. The Italian Mafia was running New York which begged the questions, have they always controlled the government? What other decisions have they affected and what about the original mafia in Italy? This paper asks, did the mafia (from its ties to politicians, money, and systems in place) affect the way that Italy’s republic was created post World War II? Although the Italian Mafia has a long history that is entwined with many aspects of Italian government, the Mafia did not affect the Republic created after World War II. We will prove this by analyzing Italy during the war, the history of the mafia, the creation of the Italian Republic, the mafia after World War II, and Italy during the reconstruction directly after the war. We will first talk about the history of Italy and their part in World War II.
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Previously the bureaucratic system had been a combination of dictatorships and a constitutional monarchy run by the Savoy Family. The Savoy family had been in power since Italy’s unification in 1861, and before that they controlled the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Fascism was created in 1919 and quickly grew in supporters with their nationalist agenda during an unemployment crisis, and by the 1921 elections the Fascist Party won 21 seats in government. In 1922 after a staged march on Rome by the fascists King Victor Emmanuel III asked Benito Mussolini (hereafter referred to as Mussolini) to create a government to fix Italy. By 1925 Mussolini had declared himself dictator and famously called himself ‘il Duce’ meaning the
Previously the bureaucratic system had been a combination of dictatorships and a constitutional monarchy run by the Savoy Family. The Savoy family had been in power since Italy’s unification in 1861, and before that they controlled the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Fascism was created in 1919 and quickly grew in supporters with their nationalist agenda during an unemployment crisis, and by the 1921 elections the Fascist Party won 21 seats in government. In 1922 after a staged march on Rome by the fascists King Victor Emmanuel III asked Benito Mussolini (hereafter referred to as Mussolini) to create a government to fix Italy. By 1925 Mussolini had declared himself dictator and famously called himself ‘il Duce’ meaning the