Italian Jews were collected by the Fascists at the Fossoli concentration camp in northern Italy and later transported by the Germans to their extermination camps. This required the suspension of the normal Italian legal protections which Agamben has recognised as the creation of a state of exception that allowed Jews to be denied the rights which gave their life value, thereby reducing them to ‘bare life’ that could be destroyed without consequence for the killer. Accounting practices used in the management of the Fossoli concentration camp allowed Italian Jews in the camp to become known only with measureable attributes, not individuals with a right to life. Jewish prisoners sent to the extermination camps to be killed became mere numbers, data to be processed. Consequently, accounting practices became fundamental to the Nazis’ biopolitical regime that would become part of the attempted annihilation of Italian Jews. The paper recognises the need for researchers to engage more with the genocidal tragedies during the Second World War and in many other recent wars.

意大利犹太人在意大利北部的福索里集中营被法西斯收集，后来被德国人运送到他们的灭绝营。这需要暂停正常的意大利法律保护，阿甘本认为这是一种例外状态，允许犹太人被剥夺赋予他们生命价值的权利，从而将他们减少为“赤裸裸的生命”，可以毫无后果地被摧毁为凶手。Fossoli 集中营管理中使用的会计实践使集中营中的意大利犹太人仅以可衡量的属性为人所知，而不是拥有生命权的个人。被送到灭绝营杀死的犹太囚犯变成了单纯的数字，需要处理的数据。最后，会计实践成为纳粹生命政治制度的基础，这将成为试图消灭意大利犹太人的一部分。该论文认识到研究人员需要更多地参与第二次世界大战和最近许多其他战争中的种族灭绝悲剧。