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Born on November 11, 1869, in Naples, Victor Emmanuel III (Vittorio Emmanuele) was the last Italian monarch. He became king after the assassination of his father, Umberto I, in 1900 and oversaw a constitutional monarchy. When Mussolini led the march on Rome on October 28, 1922, the king did little to stop the Fascist seizure of power. For the next twenty-one years, Victor Emmanuel was a figurehead. However, after the Italian losses during WWII, the king, urged by military leaders and moderate Fascists, ordered the arrest of Mussolini and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as premier. After the Allies liberated Rome, the king relinquished his power to his son, Prince Umberto, and then abdicated in favor of the prince in 1946. When the following plebiscite resulted in favor of establishing a republic for postwar Italy, both Victor Emmanuel and Prince Umberto went into exile. The king passed away in Alexandria, Egypt, on December 28, 1947. (en-US)

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Zuccotti, Susan. The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, Survival. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. pp. 4,5,17,51,140,249

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