Nov 7, 2021
5 min read
Carnaro: A Test Run for Fascism
How A Small Croatian City Laid the Foundations for Fascism
Our story begins with a man: Gabriele D’Annunzio, an Italian playwright, poet, journalist, author, aristocrat, army officer and war hero. In 1919…D’Annunzio became a dictator.
When World War One began, D’Annunzio, a self-proclaimed ‘Superman’ (having been inspired by Nietzsche’s Ubermensch), started to give speeches in…
