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Actually, its a bit more complicated than that. Bartali was a devout cathlolic , hence the tension between him and Coppi in the 50s. He was also a bit of poster boy for the regime pre war. I don't think he was ever a fascist.
In some way's he's a bit like Schindler, the person least likely to help is the only one who can. If it had been any one else caught doing this then they would have been on a train to a camp.
On the other hand his Catholicism and his actions to save and protect jews is part of the pre and post war tradition of social action in the cathlolic church; and other churches for that matter.
As has already been pointed out, he rarely if ever talked about this after the war.