The Arbiters of Post-war Europe: Fascist and Falangist Nations in the New Nazi Continental Order

Abstract

This chapter analyses the Fascist and Falangist plans for a New European Order that appeared to materialise at the end of the 1930s, and the role that the Italian and Spanish nations were to play in it according to the theorists of the two movements. Priorelli’s comparative analysis returns historical dignity to Fascist and Falangist projects for the ‘new civilisation’ which have long been considered subordinate to those of Germany and scarcely relevant. The chapter reveals the complexity of the coeval debate on the post-war continental order. It also provides insights into a transnational reading of Fascist and Falangist Europeanism.

This chapter partially reproduces the content of Giorgia Priorelli, ‘The founders of a European era? Fascist and falangist plans for Italy and Spain in the new Nazi order,’ Modern Italy 3 (2019): 317–330. ISSN: 1353–2944. Reprinted with permission from Cambridge University Press (licence number 4762560164233).