An Italian court will decide shortly whether Jews in Italy were treated as “enemies” under the Mussolini regime during World War II and therefore should be exempt from payment of a 1946 head tax to cover war damages. The question has been the subject of many lawsuits in civil and administrative courts since the tax was decreed.
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