Word: capitulationism
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"At this moment the combined armed forces . . . are carrying the war deep into the territory of your country. This is the direct consequence of the shameful leadership to which you have been subjected by Mussolini and his Fascist regime. . . . Mussolini plunged you into this war, which he thought Hitler had...
"Happy Birthday to You." These facts, a warning to the overoptimistic among the Allies and some scant balm for the crushed Italian ego, did not make the conquest of the first territory within metropolitan Italy any more palatable to the war-sick, disorganized and frustrated Italian people. Mussolini waited 24...
The Allies will be fooling themselves if they count on imminent capitulation or revolt by the German people. German morale, both civilian and military, is undoubtedly declining, but the very fear of defeat increases the determination of the Germans to fight to the end.
Until Tripoli fell, the Italian press and radio carried only vague reports of fighting moving west in Libya. When the capitulation could no longer be kept from the people, there were lame excuses that Tripoli was no longer strategically important. But the Italians asked: "Where was Rommel?" They remembered Winston...
The Prelude. The first blow at Tunisia was struck by twin-engined bombers soaring over "Death Alley" from Malta. On the same day that Eisenhower announced the capitulation of Morocco and Algeria the bombers destroyed 19 planes and damaged 19 others on the el-Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis...