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SUMMARY:The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First Wo
 rld War - Hannah Malone\, Lumley Junior Research Fellow\, Magdalene Colleg
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CONTACT:Dr Bianca Gaudenzi
DESCRIPTION:The seminar will explore how Italy’s fascist regime exploite
 d the deaths of thousands who fell in the Great War. Whereas\, initially\,
  soldiers who died fighting were buried in makeshift cemeteries close to t
 he battlefields\, in the 1920-30s\, their remains were disinterred and reb
 uried within large ossuaries. Located along the former front in north-east
 ern Italy\, the vast scale and monumentality of the Fascist ossuaries mean
 s that they are quite unlike other comparable European memorials. By impos
 ing a narrative that spoke of victory\, they helped to silence discordant 
 memories of the Great War as pointless slaughter\, and to bolster support 
 for nationalism\, militarism and imperialism. \n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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