Comments by "SpaniardsR Moors" (@spaniardsrmoors6817) on "A Day In History" channel.

"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)” AND...MUCH MORE
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Italy conquered 5 countries, was awarded the territory they won in France, and won the Spanish civil war vs. the Communist. Aside from Russia and Germany no other European country performed better, or stated another way, Italy was the 3rd best performing European country of the war. An Empire larger than Germany's.
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Rommel was a “genius” thanks only to the Italians: “At that point, of course, the situation changed considerably and Rommel has gone down in history as one of the greatest military leaders of all time for his stunning victories over the British in north Africa.. What many fail to realize though is that the forces effectively under his command, which he used to win these masterful successes, were 2/3 Italian and the large majority of his armored forces were Italian tanks.” “The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.” _Rommel And Italian intelligence and bravery: NOTE: This video has since been removed due to copyright infringement. It showed how Italian Intelligence Services penetrated British Intelligence and relayed British fighting positions to Rommel, hence why he seemed to know their every move.
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The nonsense of the Italian Navy being completely inept: “This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.”
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@kasper2970 Italy won in Greece, NOT Germany and Hitler stated so in a speech. Ethiopia had help from Germany and other powers and Italy won alone. Egypt, Britain was aided with massive American aid, otherwise Italy had won all previous African territories.
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@mrnygren2 The British were helped by massive American aid, the Italians were relegated to fighting without munitions, food, water, hand made petrol bombs in the end and ALONE in many instances as the Germans retreated and without Italian troops, tanks, Intelligence, Rommel would have never achieved what he did. Ethiopia was aided by Germany and other Europeans.
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@mrnygren2 "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)”
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@mrnygren2 8TH Bersaglieri Regiment & Regia Aeronautica smash Australian 9th Division defending Benghazi & Mechili Ariete Division overruns The Buffs Regiment (1,000 Brit POWs) British defeat captured on film And it was the Ariete who ploughed through the British-officered 3rd Indian Brigade, during Operation Venezia on 27 May 1942, capturing 1,000 defenders. With Rommel's panzer divisions completely surrounded and out of fuel and water at the very start of the Axis offensive, the Trieste (braving air and artillery strikes) came to their rescue, thus saving an incompetent Rommel from surrender and Germany from an embarrassing early exit in the North African Campaign.
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@jeredlyon9497 You forgot the biggest backstabber-GERMANY...dragged an unprepared Italy into WWII breaking the Pact of Steel.
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@mrnygren2 They did well before Rommel, had won all conflicts including vs British and Rommel was made famous only thanks to Italians, NEVER given credit. Rommel was a “genius” thanks only to the Italians: “At that point, of course, the situation changed considerably and Rommel has gone down in history as one of the greatest military leaders of all time for his stunning victories over the British in north Africa.. What many fail to realize though is that the forces effectively under his command, which he used to win these masterful successes, were 2/3 Italian and the large majority of his armored forces were Italian tanks.” “The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.” _Rommel And Italian intelligence and bravery: NOTE: This video has since been removed due to copyright infringement. It showed how Italian Intelligence Services penetrated British Intelligence and relayed British fighting positions to Rommel, hence why he seemed to know their every move.
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@mrnygren2 Brits "owned" Italians WHERE? Operation Compass win was thanks to massive American aid, same Egypt. BOTH those conflicts were AFTER Italy had won multiple territories/wars in N. Africa, Albania, won Spanish civil war, Greece and were heavily depleted going into those conflicts. Italians were relegated to fighting with home made petrol bombs, no food, water, munitions and a good portion of colonial troops who had no will to fight on in those conditions. I stated w/o the Italians he would have never achieved as much, not "anything."
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@mrnygren2 While Hitler dithered in the Fall of 1940, the Italians were busy expelling the British out of Somaliland and invaded Egypt. The failure of nerve displayed by the Germans in dealing with Britain added to Italy’s woes. Rather than invade Britain and knock it out of the war quickly, the foolhardy Germans decided to invade the USSR instead! The inanity of the Germans was, for the Italians, beyond belief! As Sadkovich caustically observed: “In the end, the Italians wasted three months waiting for Operation Sealion, whose cancellation allowed Britain to rebound, gave France hope, and caused other states either to gravitate to the British orbit or, like Spain, to remain neutral.” By September 1940, even the German public were demoralized by the war and by British raids on their cities.
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@mrnygren2 Battle of Mersa Matruh Italians capture 10,000 Brits, Gurkhas & Kiwis British defeat captured on film 12th Bersaglieri Regiment destroys 70 British tanks!!! 2nd Alamein During the Battle of Tebourba in December, the 10th Bersaglieri Regiment and a company of Italian Marines from the San Marco Regiment company―supported by Semovente tank destroyers from 557th Grupo Asalto of the Superga Division―captured 300 British and American “Red Berets” from Lieutenant-Colonel John Frost's 2nd (British) Parachute Battalion and Colonel Edson Raff''s 2nd (US) Paratroop Battalion.
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@mrnygren2 10th Bersaglieri Regiment defeats US & British Paras (Defeat of British & American Paratroopers captured on film) Italian troops were the main participants in the Tunisian Campaign and there were a number of experienced Bersaglieri battalions amongst the Afrika Korps assault formations during the Battle of Kasserine Pass. The 5th and 7th Bersaglieri Regiments were literally the Axis spearhead and along with the Centuaro Armoured Division obtained Rommel's last victory in driving back the US infantry (under Colonel Anderson Moore) and tanks (under Colonel Louis Hightower) along the mountain pass and Highway 13, with the Italians capturing 2,450 American soldiers in this action.
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Yeah dude, the Italians fought as well or BETTER than any British or Germans in N. Africa and that's a proven FACT, plus Italy conquered 5 countries, was awarded the territory they won in France, and won the Spanish civil war vs. the Communist. Aside from Russia and Germany no other European country performed better, or stated another way, Italy was the 3rd best performing European country of the war and their Empire was larger than Germany's. Without America the British were on the brink of defeat-FACT. Without Italian troops, tanks, Intelligence that gave Rommel British positions, he was in NO way as successful. FACT.
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@virgilstarkwell8383 "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)”
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From Hitler’s own words: “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." [251] 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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@Marauder99991 And what of Adolph? Check his arm movements, screaming, much worse.
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@virgilstarkwell8383 350,000 Austrians SURRENDERED TO Italians BRINGING THE FINAL COLLAPSE of the A-H Empire. Italy fought them and Germany for 3 years on the toughest front of the war, lost hundreds of thousands and bankrupted Italy. They contributed MORE than their fair share.
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@baoxidiaoyu You lost it surrendering, now you want Italy to hand it over? Keep dreaming Adolph.
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@Momusinterra They copied that black look from Italy...the Blackshirts, just as Adolph copied everything he knew from Mussolini...they were copycats only, Italy has always led in fashion, look at the Carabanieri uni's of today considered the best looking in the world.
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@virgilstarkwell8383 From Hitler’s own words: “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." [251] 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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@virgilstarkwell8383 The nonsense of the Italian Navy being completely inept: “This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.”
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@ericfaz1427 Rommel would have done $ hit if not for Italian troops, tanks, Intelligence Services, but received all the credit.
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@johnwriter8234 FJB the CRIMINAL
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@mrnygren2 Battle of Kasserine Pass 5TH & 7TH BERSAGLIERI REGIMENTS DEFEAT US 2ND ARMY CORPS (Italian armoured counterattack captured on film) TUNISGRAD Afrika Korps Betrays Italy (German mass surrenders caught on film)
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@peesda You Slavs have been committing genocides on yourselves and the Jews for decades, just read what they did during WW II, don't even go there and blame only Mussolini.
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@abdulalsalay The resistance lasted 25 years and were always crushed, including the 'Lion of the Desert' if you're a Libyan you should know that.
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@abdulalsalay The rebellions lasted more than 9 years, the entire 25...that's my point.
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@OK-yy6qz Hey bud, Italy was winning vs Britain in N. Africa, and conquered multiple countries, without America's help Britain in NO way would have taken back land or won, and it was the backstabbing GERMANS who fooled Mussolini into WW II breaking the Pact of Steel. Tell me ONE Pact the Germans honored, they betrayed friends and foes alike.
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@virgilstarkwell8383 How many innocent civilians were murdered by the "brave" Germans, Japanese?? You got to be f'in kidding me BUD...telling civilians they were going to the "showers" and camps to simply be indoctrinated, shuttering them up in buildings burned alive, bayoneting children, horrid medical experiments on live humans. Joke my@$$ BUD, they fought as well or better than the Germans with an even larger Empire. Here's a few examples, BUD, try debunking them:
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@virgilstarkwell8383 YT $ hit keep deleting my comments so I don't know how many you can see, but those "opera singers" were more effective than any other forces except America, Russia, Japan, Germany and that's with depleted, outdated equipment thanks to Germany's back stab. I can c/p a hundred instances of heroic Italian fighting and wins but again YT will delete whatever offends their algo fee fee's and many wouldn't go through. Germany would have never lasted as long including the Atlantic if Italy had been on the Allied side, including Rommel. And you literally said Italy had or did nothing except for fancy uni's. I'm pretty sure you were able to see all my replies although not all are visible to others and you're unable to debunk any one of them.
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@helbitkelbit1790 Or Amerigo Vespucci, Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) and countless others who made America, western civilization.
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Don't even compare the two. Franco was nothing but a flip-flopping COWARD who wanted concessions for doing little or nothing. Hitler admired Mussolini more than any leader, despised Franco. And it was Mussolini who won his civil war and that was a main contributor to Italy's downfall because of the men and supplies drained Italy's already depleted forces but the COWARD never gave him credit.
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@Pilvenuga Wisdom my @$$, he was a COWARD...see my other comment just above.
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@OK-yy6qz The COWARD Franco destroyed Italy's military which was already depleted, without Italy he would have lost.
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Rommel was a “genius” thanks only to the Italians: “At that point, of course, the situation changed considerably and Rommel has gone down in history as one of the greatest military leaders of all time for his stunning victories over the British in north Africa.. What many fail to realize though is that the forces effectively under his command, which he used to win these masterful successes, were 2/3 Italian and the large majority of his armored forces were Italian tanks.” “The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.” _Rommel And Italian intelligence and bravery: NOTE: This video has since been removed due to copyright infringement. It showed how Italian Intelligence Services penetrated British Intelligence and relayed British fighting positions to Rommel, hence why he seemed to know their every move. @merseybeast76
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Germans promised Italy 3 more years to prepare in the Pact of Steel, then betrayed Italy invading Poland just 4 months later without ever telling Mussolini of their intentions dragging an unprepared Italy into WW II...TRAITORS...even so, Italy's Empire was larger than Germany's.
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@michaelreid8857 No? That why 70% don't want the jackass dementia patient to run again? The job numbers only because they're recouping Covid losses? Tell us how well inflation, war in Ukraine, crime, open borders have helped America become 3rd world BUD. Tell us why Putin invaded TWICE underObuzzard/Dementia but NOT Trump!
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