L'Opera Nazionale Combattenti (ONC) was a charity founded during World War I, a work of the then Secretary of the Treasury Francesco Saverio Nitti and Alberto Beneduce.
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The department was set up in the aftermath of the defeat of the battle of Caporetto, with the Decree N. 1970 of December 10, 1917, which also he established the Opera Nazionale Invalidi di Guerra, along the First World War initially with the slogan " land to the farmers " after become " land to the army veterans " and after violent illegal assignments of farming land later validated (that took place in the center south of Italy with conflict with absentee landlords), it was approved on January 16, 1919.
The ONC proposed organizational tasks and training to army veterans, and various initiatives in the field of land reclamation and agricultural financial assistance.
There were times when the veterans soldiers returned from the war often mutilated they had no money to buy breads and foods.
The reintegration of army veterans in the workforce market, also it covered the provision of mortgage and of insurance on favorable terms to veterans of the Great War, under the influence of the idea of the financier insurance expert business magnate Amedeo Natoli. The Institute thinks that the first president Beneduce was in favor of a profound innovation agro-industrial as the north had to be syndicated and independent and from 1922 onwards will instead collide with the fragmentation of self-consumption of rural conservative-corporate ideology.