Marconi Blocked Jews From Il Duce's Academy

Guglielmo Marconi, the father of radio and Italy's scientific hero of the 20th century, has been outed as a fascist hatchetman for Benito Mussolini's anti-semitic policies. Documents unearthed in Rome have exposed Marconi as a clandestine but willing enforcer of the dictator's campaign...
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Dante woops, sorry folks just a little confused. I was thinking of Enrico fermi for some reason.....quite embarrasing 9/27/2004
Dante It seems to be forgotten that marconi as soon as he was able, fled fascist italy. It was precisely because of these racist policies (his wife was of jewish extraction) that he fled italy for america in search of asylum. He would later go on to help in the development of americas atomic project. 9/27/2004
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