Ezra Pound
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His work
Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Pound's paternal grandfather, in the late 1880s
In his Cheltenham Military Academy uniform with his mother, 1898
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), c. 1921
Italian Social Republic
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The Italian Social Republic, known prior to December 1943 as the National Republican State of Italy, but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò, was a German puppet state with limited diplomatic
Ezra Pound
…1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos (c. 1915–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry…
Benito Mussolini rescued by German troops from his prison in Campo Imperatore on 12 September 1943
Italian Social Republic propaganda poster saying: "Germany is truly your friend", by Gino Boccasile (1944)
German Tiger I tank in front of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome in February 1944
Mussolini inspecting fortified positions, 1944