GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 705, sig. 110-4/556

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53-14 - This catholicization is not only evident in the fact that Italian foreign policy is spreading far along with the curial parallel. Much more important is that both the concept of Europe as well as the basic concepts of culture, Velk, race and 'aat sine gei. ständigen change process are subject. Instead, la: zi: s takes the place of the Italian primacy of Gioberti, that is to say, Denker, who described the birthright of Italians among the peoples of Europe as a permanent quality of this people, while Mazzini wanted to make his countrymen only torch-deceptors of a new manifestation in the historical situation at that time, because the Italians always have certain religious and spiritual truths, they are superior to other peoples. They gave the rest of Europe the germs of their civilization, especially through the Catholic Church. The Italians, as he puts it, are the Levites of Christendom, because Providence has chosen them to have the Christian Pontifax in their midst. Italy is very much included in the papacy, as well as materially the papatism in Italyita, In a multi-volume herke "Del primato morele e civile degli Italiani", which today finds high invigoration, Gioberti has developed his doctrine. It is to a certain extent the fundamental doctrine of today's faschiamus. The Gioberti-Renaissance is strongly related to the new way in which Europe is re- garded, so there are a lot of Giobertti quotations in Pu-blizistics, e.g.: "Europe returns to Italy; this return is the beginning of his redemption and leads to the restoration of European unity." "Those statesmen and reformers who want to build on firm cred- tures would like their new borders to be linked to the general moines and make them a barmonic cances in line with the national spirit." In the sense of this hurmonization, the vann, who at the scientific level as the representative of the European cultural idea in Italy will know: Guido Vanacora. At the end of 1994 he was commissioned by the Duce to deal with the questions of Italianism and Germanism within the framework of the Fascist Cultural Institute. On March 343, Corriere della Sera reported that Kanscorda von Mussolini was in charge of preparing an "Institute for the Research of European Culture" - 15 -