ABSTRACT
In March 1930, Gino Germani and eight other people were caught by the fascist political police distributing political information about an antifascist demonstration against unemployment and taxes, which was to take place outside Parliament on 23 March, in the evening. Those arrested, which included an anarchist, a communist, a professor with political records, and Gino Germani, were immediately found guilty of conduct subversive to good order and national security and acts offensive to the State. What Germani feared most about fascism was what he called the "uniformity of ideas and the fear of freedom". Gino became familiar with working-class views and met leaders of the workers' movement, as well as other young antifascists with whom he could share opinions and ideas. Germani began to write immediately about what he saw in fascist jails. Germani's adolescent years were solitary because of his economic situation, his family's political views, and his own introverted nature and physical weakness.
