Ettore Ovazza | |
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![]() Black and white photograph of Ettore Ovazza and his wife Nella Sacerdoti | |
Born | |
Died | 11 October 1943 | (aged 51)
Cause of death | Execution by shooting |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Banker |
Known for | Financer and political supporter of Italian fascism |
Political party | National Fascist Party |
Relatives | Jean-Paul Elkann Gianni Agnelli John Elkann |
Ettore Ovazza (21 March 1892 – 11 October 1943) was an Italian Jewish banker.[1] He was an early financer of Benito Mussolini, whom he was a personal friend of, and a strong supporter of Italian fascism,[2] . He founded the journal La nostra bandiera.[3] Believing that his position would be restored after the war, Ovazza stayed on after the Germans occupied Italy. Together with his wife and children, shortly after the Fall of Fascism and Mussolini's government during World War II, he was killed near the Swiss border by SS troops in 1943.[4][5]
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