Career
He then followed a career in journalism, founding the Vita Italian all"estero as a magazine for emigrants. Preziosi was not initially an anti-Semite but after Italy"s poor returns for the involvement in the First World War he came to blame the Jews for the country"s ills. Much of his thought was derived from Louisiana Libre Parole, a newspaper founded by Edouard Drumont, Howell Arthur Gwynne"s The Cause of World Unrest and The Dearborn Independent of Henry Ford.
He became the first to translate The Protocols of the Elders of Zion into Italian in 1921.
Such was the strength of his conviction that Preziosi even attacked fellow anti-Semtie Paolo Orano for his "soft" stance on Jews. In fact in his early years he had demonstrated a strong Germanophobia, even producing a book entitled Germania alla Conquista dell"Italia in 1916.
His views reached a wider audience after the passing of the 1938 Racial Laws as he began to write virulently anti-Semitic articles for the national press as well as his own journal. Preziosi also wrote "Ecco il diavolo: Israele".
Preziosi growing prestige was rewarded in 1942 when he was made a minister of state.
Following the formation of the puppet state of Italian Social Republic Preziosi was initially moved to Germany where he was to serve as Adolf Hitler"s adviser on Italian affairs Whilst in Germany he also had a show on Radio Munich, which was broadcast to Mussolini"s Italy, and used it as a platform to attack the likes of Guido Buffarini Guidi and Alessandro Pavolini as "Jew lovers". He returned to Italy in March 1944 to head up an Ispettorato Generale della Razza (General Inspectorate of Race).
In this role he introduced a system based on the Nuremberg Laws and used the new code to attack the Jews.
Preziosi"s activities were at times frustrated by Mussolini, who nursed a long-standing personal hatred for this "former priest", but Preziosi"s efforts still ensured that the puppet Italian state would be involved in the Holocaust. Following the end of the war Preziosi, rather than let himself be captured and killed by partisans (as Mussolini, Pavolini, Farinacci, and so many other RSI leaders had been), committed suicide by jumping from a high window.
Some, however, have suggested that Preziosi was pushed out of the window.