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Mussolini wrote to Hitler to request a meeting to discuss the situation in Italy, but the letter was never sent since the Führer – who got daily reports on Italy from his ambassador to the Vatican and Himmler agent, Eugen Dollmann, and was worried about the apathy of the Duce and the ongoing Italian military catastrophe – asked him to meet ...
The Italian forces were forcefully disbanded in the north and centre of the country, with most of Italy being occupied by the Germans, who established a puppet state, the Italian Social Republic led by Mussolini. The king, the Italian government and most of the Navy fled to southern Italy under the protection of the Allies.
Fearing that the war would end before Italy had achieved any of its aims, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ordered a full-scale invasion across the Alps to begin on 21 June. The Franco-German armistice was signed on the evening of the 22 June, but would not come into force until the Italians signed their own armistice. Their troops having ...
In the twenty-one-year interbellum period, many political scientists and philosophers sought ideological inspiration from Italy. Mussolini's establishment of law and order to Italy and its society was praised by Winston Churchill, [152] Sigmund Freud, [153] George Bernard Shaw [154] and Thomas Edison [155] as the fascist government combated ...
The news of the fall of Mussolini and the creation of a military government led by Marshal Pietro Badoglio surprised and enraged Hitler, who immediately understood that, despite assurances by Badoglio and Italian diplomats, the change of regime was a prelude to an Italian defection, which would endanger the German forces fighting in Southern ...
The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War (2007) Moseley, Ray. Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce (2004) Roberto Chiarini [in Italian] (2004). Mussolini ultimo atto. I luoghi della Repubblica di Salò (in Italian and German). Roccafranca: La compagnia della stampa. ISBN 88-8486-105-5. OCLC 804881568.
Fascist Italy (Italian: Italia Fascista) is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy when it was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator.
In 1938, Mussolini attempts to promote peace at the Munich Conference. Nonetheless, he aligns himself with Adolf Hitler. Mussolini draws Italy into World War II, which leads to his country's decline, Mussolini's fall from power, and the eventual roadside execution of Mussolini and Petacci. The series was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards.