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He was explaining the 'appearance' of the Italian in Italy (dark swarthy) lead to the demonization of Italians who were Jewish with this blood libel stereotyping in the late 1930's and the concept of Aryanizing Italians.
Literally - a Blood Libel depiction of citizens of Italy who were Jewish. 
80 years later - if you say to my husband or his siblings - even my late in-laws (Immigrant - just got citizenship in November) that he is 'white' - he takes offense. He's Calabrese and they didn't go along, to get along with Duce and Hitler on that. His older brother's DNA testing was very interesting to say the least.
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