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1935 Italian fascist campaign to donate gold to the state
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Those who donated their gold wedding band received a steel replacement from Mussolini commemorating their contribution

Oro alla Patria ("Gold for the Fatherland") was a 1935 Italian fascist campaign that asked Italians to donate their gold assets to fundraise for their fatherland. Faced with League of Nations sanctions for its Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the Fascist government collected 250,000 wedding rings from Rome and 180,000 from Milan, amid other personal gold jewelry and objects totaling 33,600 kilograms of gold and 93,400 of silver. In acts of sacrifice for the state, prominent figures donated items of great symbolic value: the Queen's wedding ring, the Prince's collar of the Annunciation, the dramatist Luigi Pirandello's Nobel Prize, Guglielmo Marconi's senator medal, and Mussolini's Rocca delle Caminate castle statue busts.

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References

  1. "New steel bands replace rings donated to Duce". The Patriot. Indiana, Pennsylvania. June 6, 1936. p. 8. Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  2. Principe, Angelo (1999). . Toronto: Guernica Editions. p. 121. ISBN 9781550710830. Retrieved December 1, 2024. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. Segrè, Gino (2016). The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. New York: Henry Holt & Co. ISBN 9781250143792.
  4. Williamson, Peter (2023). Duce: The Contradictions of Power / The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini. London: C.Hurst & Co. p. 224. ISBN 9780197696132.
  5. Innocenti, Marco (December 14, 2007). "Storie dalla storia / L'oro alla Patria". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian). Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2022.

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