Berlusconi quoted as saying Mussolini ``never killed anyone''

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Thu, Sep 11, 2003 12:48PM

Mussolini ruled Italy from 1922 until his ouster in 1943. Widespread persecution of Italian Jews began in 1938 when Mussolini's regime issued racial laws. In 1943, German troops occupied northern and central Italy, and almost 7,000 Jews were deported, 5,910 of whom were killed.

Berlusconi quoted as saying Mussolini ``never killed anyone''
TOM RACHMAN, Associated Press Writer Thursday, September 11, 2003
(09-11) 12:21 PDT ROME (AP) --

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was quoted Thursday as saying that Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini never killed anyone and only sent people away on vacations in internal exile, a claim that distressed Jewish leaders.

The premier later explained that he had not intended to re-evaluate Mussolini's place in history, and had only been responding to a comparison between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Mussolini's Italy made by his interviewer.

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