such a long period in the Italian Peninsula. However, Mussolini's views on race were often contradictory and quick to change when necessary, and as Fascist Italy became increasingly subordinate to Nazi Germany's interests, Mussolini began adopting openly racial theories borrowed from or based on Nazi racial policies, leading to the introduction of the anti-Semitic Racial Laws. Historian Federico Chabod argued that the introduction of the Nordicist-influenced Racial Laws was a large factor in the decrease of public support among Italians for Fascist Italy, and many Italians viewed the Racial Laws as an obvious imposition or intrusion of German values into Italian culture, and a sign that Mussolini's power and the Fascist regime were collapsing under Nazi German influence. See also An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus "Fascist Manifesto" Italian war crimes Lebensraum Nazi racial theories Nuremberg Laws Race Life of the Aryan Peoples The Garden of the Finzi-Continis The Holocaust in Italy Three Aspects of the Jewish Problem Antisemitism in 21st-century Italy Racism in Italy References Citations Sources Gregor, A. James; The Search for Neofascism, New York, Cambridge University Press (2006). Gregor, A. James; Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought, Princeton, Princeton University Press (2005). Wiskemann, Elizabeth; Fascism in Italy: Its Development and Influence, New York, St. Martins Press (1969). Renzo De Felice: The Jews in Fascist Italy. Enigma Books 2001, . External links 1938 documents 1938 in Italy 1938 in law Antisemitism in Italy Aryanism Historical definitions of race Italian fascist works Legal history of Italy Race and law Scientific racism The Holocaust in Italy