I am a Ph.D. student in History at Cornell University. My current project is a comparative history of double agents in the Second World War. The purpose of this research project is to compare the activities of the OVRA, the Fascist secret police, and the Gestapo, its Nazi counterpart, during the Second World War. OVRA agents tracked down the so-called “subversives,” all opponents to the Fascist regime, who were registered with the “Casellario Politico Centrale,” an office of the general direction of the Italian Public Security. Gestapo agents infiltrated the Resistance networks in German-occupied countries and succeeded in arresting a large number of underground militants as well as the airmen and allied soldiers the Resistance fighters tried to hide.
Link to my academia page: https://cornell.academia.edu/BenedettaCarnaghi