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@killgora1 The Italian people's musical sense, its liking for harmonious proportions, the beauty of its race! The Renaissance was the dawn of a new era, in which Aryan man found himself anew. There's also our own past on Italian soil. A man who is in- different to history is a man without hearing, without sight. Such a man can live, of course — but what a life?
The magic of Florence and Rome, of Ravenna, Siena, Perugia! Tuscany and Umbria, how lovely they are! The smallest palazzo in Florence or Rome is worth more than all Windsor Castle. If the English destroy anything in Florence or Rome, it will be a crime. In Moscow, it wouldn't do any great harm; nor in Berlin, unfortunately.
I've seen Rome and Pariš, and I must say that Pariš, with the exception of the Are de Triomphe, has nothing on the scale of the Coliseum, or the Castle of San Angelo, or St. Peter's. These monuments, which are the produet of a collective effort, have ceased to be on the scale of the individual. There's something queer about the Pariš buildings, whether it's those bull's-eye windows, so badly proportioned, or those gables that obliterate whole facades. If I compare the Pantheon in Rome with the Pantheon in Pariš, what a poor building — and what sculptures ! What I saw in Pariš has disappeared from my memory : Rome really seized hold of me. When the Duce čame to Berlin, we gave him a magnificent reception. But our journey in Italy, that was something else! The reception when we arrived, with ali the ceremonial. The visit to the Quirinal. Naples, apart from the castle, might be anywhere in South America. But there's always the courtyard ofthe royal palače. What nobility of proportions !
My dearest wish would be to be able to wander about in Italy as an unknown painter.
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@killgora1 I must say, I always enjoy meeting the Duce. He's a great personality. It's curious to think that, at the same period as myself, he was working in the building trade in Germany. Our programme was worked out in 1919, and at that time I knew nothing about him. Our doctrines are based on the foundations proper to each of them, but every man's way of thinking is a result.
Don't suppose that events in Italy had no influence on us. The brown shirt would probably not have existed without the black shirt. The march on Rome, in 1922, was one of the tuming-points of history. The mere fact that anything ofthe sort could be attempted, and could succeed, gave us an im- petus. A few weeks after the march on Rome, I was received by the Minister Schweyer. That would never have happened otherwise. If Mussolini had been outdistanced by Marxism, I don't know whether we could have succeeded in holding out. At that period National Socialism was a very fragile growth. If the Duce were to die, it would be a great misfortune for Italy.
As I vvalked with him in the gardens of the Villa Bor- ghese, I could easily compare his profile with that of the Roman busts, and I realised he was one of the Caesars. There's no doubt at ali that Mussolini is the heir of the great men of that period.
Despite their weaknesses, the Italians have so many qualities that make us like them. Italy is the country where intelligence created the notion of the State. The Roman Empire is a great political creation, the greatest of all.
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@killgora1 Greek war:
Others among the German leadership were less critical, most notably Adolf Hitler. In his address to the Reichstag following the conclusion of the Balkan Campaign, Hitler was complimentary to the Greeks for their "extremely brave resistance", but stated that given the Greek logistical situation,
German involvement was not decisive in the Greco-Italian conflict:
"The Duce... was convinced that a quick decision would be arrived at one way or another in the forthcoming season. I was of the same opinion." He stated that he had no quarrel with Greece (which he had acknowledged as part of the Italian sphere anyway) and that his intervention was aimed solely at the British as he suspected that they planned to set up a threat to his rear in the vein of the Salonika Front
of the First World War:
"the German forces, therefore, represented no assistance to Italy against Greece, but a preventive measure against the British."
He further noted that by the beginning of April the Albanian campaign against the Italians "had so weakened [Greece] that its collapse had already become inevitable", and credited the Italians with having "engaged the greater part of the Greek Army."
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In his private correspondence in April 1942, Hitler said: "It is equally impossible to imagine what might have happened if the Italian front had not been stabilized in Albania, thanks to Mussolini; the whole of the Balkans would have been set alight at a moment when our advance towards the southeast was still in its early stages."
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PURE PROPAGANDA BS from people like you. Italy fought as bravely and in instances BETTER than the cowardly Nazi's who retreated in N. Africa and Russia leaving the Italians behind.
1. Italy conquered 5 countries, was awarded the territory they won in France, and won the Spanish civil war vs. the Communist. Italy was the 3rd best performing European country of the war and their Empire was LARGER than the Nazi's.
2. Just TWO examples:
"Not only should Tunisia have exploded the myth of Hitler's military acumen, it should have discredited the idea that Germans fought better than the Italians, since Messe's 1st Italian Army held out longer than Arnim's 5th German Army and the DAK, even both groups had about six divisions and faced roughly equal Anglo-American forces. Indeed, Hermann Goring division was the first to be scattered on 7 May, DAK the next to break and surrender on 9 May, with the Italian Spezia division closing the gap created by the German collapse and watching still combat-efficient German units march off into captivity on 11 May. Whether it is significant that the German 90th Light division was the first to collapse in Messe's 'Italian' Army, there is no doubt that the Italians fought well and held out longest in Tunisia." (The Second World War: The German War 1939-1942, Jeremy Black, Page 265, Ashgate, 2007)”
“On June 7, 1942, infantry of the Italian X Corps saved Rommel’s 15th Brigade near Gazala, in North Africa, from otherwise certain annihilation. These and numerous other disclosures combine to debunk lingering propaganda stereotypes of the inept, ineffectual Italian armed forces and their allegedly inept commanders and supreme leader. That dated portrayal is rendered obsolete by a true-to-life account of the men and weapons of Mussolini’s War: Volume 1—The Triumphant Years.”
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