Editing Ettore Majorana (section)

===Political and ideological affiliations===

Majorana was a member of the [[National Fascist Party]] (PNF), having joined on 31 July 1933.<ref name="Francese2010">{{cite journal |last=Francese |first=Joseph |year=2010 |title=Leonardo Sciascia and The Disappearance of Majorana |journal=Journal of Modern Italian Studies |volume=15 |issue=5 |pages=715–733 |doi=10.1080/1354571X.2010.523541}}</ref>{{rp|p=718}} A month before disappearing, he wrote to his mother:

{{bq|Today they will give me a better room, on via Depretis, from which I will be able to see, three months from now, Hitler pass by!<ref name="Recami1975b">{{cite journal |last=Recami |first=Erasmo |year=1975 |title=I nuovi documenti sulla scomparsa del fisico Ettore Majorana |journal=Scientia |volume=110 |pages=577–588}}</ref>}}

In another letter from Copenhagen to a member of [[Enrico Fermi]]'s group Giovannino, he expressed support for Nazi policies and applauded Hitler's sacking of civil servants from local administrations and his replacement of them with nationalist cadre:<ref name="Recami2008"/>{{rp|p=147-157}}

{{bq|[[Hitler]] seems to know what he is doing. Probably the fascist example is of great help to him.<ref name="Gentile1988">{{cite journal |last=Gentile |first=Giovanni, Jr |year=1988 |title=Lettere inedite di Ettore Majorana a Giovanni Gentile, Jr. |journal=Giornale critico della filosofia italiana |pages=145–153}}</ref>{{rp|p=148}}}}

Majorana recommended to his mother, who wanted to learn German, a newspaper that "became fascist overnight after Hitler imposed changes in the editorial board".<ref name="Recami2008"/>{{rp|p=163}}

Majorana endorsed antisemitic views by suggesting that discrimination against Jews was justified as a means to "repress a socially harmful mentality,"<ref name="Recami2008">{{cite book |last=Recami |first=Erasmo |year=2008 |title=Il caso Majorana: epistolario, documenti, testimonianze |publisher=Di Renzo |pages=170}}</ref> implying that such measures were necessary to make room for a new generation. Majorana wrote:

{{bq|In truth, not only the Jews, but even the communists and in general all adversaries of the regime are being eliminated from social life. In sum, what the government is doing comes in response to an historical necessity: that of making room for a new generation that risks being suffocated by economic stagnation.<ref name="Recami2008"/>{{rp|p=170}}}}

Professor of Italian Joseph Francese contends that [[Leonardo Sciascia]]'s narrative regarding Majorana's disappearance is primarily a literary construct designed to stimulate debate over the ethical responsibilities of scientists rather than an accurate historical account. According to Francese, the story of Majorana's disappearance was a later dramatization by Sciascia that obscured the fact that Majorana was actively involved in the nationalist politics of the 1930s.<ref name="Francese2010">{{cite journal |last=Francese |first=Joseph |year=2010 |title=Leonardo Sciascia and The Disappearance of Majorana |journal=Journal of Modern Italian Studies |volume=15 |issue=5 |pages=715–733 |doi=10.1080/1354571X.2010.523541}}</ref>