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"The Secret Newspapers That Helped Defeat Fascism
The women behind Italy’s underground press during World War II offer important lessons for democracies today.
In the fall of 1943, Bianca Guidetti Serra, a young anti-fascist partisan, defied the Italian authorities to create her first giornalino—or two-sided mini newspaper—for her neighborhood in the city of Turin. At the time, printing was a dangerous act. It was a few months into the German occupation of Italy, and one of the Nazis’ first edicts, by a commandant in Florence on Oct. 3, 1943, declared, 'Anyone who is discovered compiling, printing, distributing, and spreading anti-German propaganda will be punished with immediate execution by firing squad.'"
