Togliatti amnesty

The amnesty covered common crimes as well as political ones committed during World War II.

To mark this event, a general amnesty was proposed and Togliatti was responsible for drafting the law.

[7] On a practical note, the Italian prison system was overcrowded, holding 80,000 inmates in early 1946, twice as many as a decade earlier.

[3] In practice, the Fascists and collaborators benefited far more from the amnesty than imprisoned partisans, who were treated as common criminals.

[7] Later less publicised pardons and releases on parole between 1947 and 1953, further reduced sentences for political crimes committed during the war and, as argued by some, turned Italy's amnesty into an "amnesia".