The Italian Platform for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Leonardo Pazzagli
The postwar purge of the italian Public Security forces: from the preliminary investigations of the High Commissioner to the appeals to the Special Section of the State Council (1944-1952)
The article describes the procedures and the specificities that characterized the
PS (Public Security forces) purge, which was part of the general attempt of defascification
of the Italian State administration. The aim of the article is to trace
the diachronic shifts that the PS purges underwent in the period 1944-1952, and
to analyze the varied organisms responsible for the purge and their own members.
Furthermore, it takes in exam several individual cases during the different
stages of the purging trial. In its conclusions, the article suggests that the PS
purge was mildly carried out as much as the general attempt of defascification
of the Italian state was.