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Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani

October 11, 2011 By
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Graziani was the only Marshal to stay loyal to Mussolini and was appointed Minister of Defense of the RSI. He also commanded the mixed Italo-German “Armee Ligurien”. Arrested in 1945, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 1950, but released in the same year. He died in Rome on January 11, 1955.

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Letter from Adolf Hitler to Benito Mussolini on Operation Barbarossa

March 20, 2010 By

The situation in England itself is bad; the provision of food and raw materials is growing steadily more difficult. The martial spirit to make war, after all, lives only on hopes. These hopes are based solely on two assumptions: Russia and America.

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Graziani vs. Rommel

March 16, 2010 By
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Graziani and Rommel led two very different armies in the North Africa front, and in turn, the options they had were not the same. To base any comparison between the success of Erwin Rommel and the failure of Graziani’s Italian forces prior to the German involvement is simply flawed.

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