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Badoglio said that it was all Mussolini's fault. He said that the Duce explained plunging Italy into the war with the words: "In September everything will be over, and I need some thousands of dead to be able to sit at the peace table as a belligerent." Badoglio said that Mussolini had not consulted anyone before writing Hitler at the end of May 1940 that he would declare war by June...
...place of Italy was settled for the duration. Pietro Badoglio completed a maneuver begun last July when Vittorio Emanuele had him seize Mussolini: Italy had been eased from the losing to the winning side without so much as the loss of a king...
Brother v. Brother. In the north, beyond the German lines, the premature anti-Fascist risings of the summer had a painful aftermath. In Milan the Archbishop, Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Shuster, found it necessary to threaten excommunication to those who denounced their anti-Fascist brothers to the Germans. Mussolini's Republican Fascist Government, speaking from a still-undisclosed capital, bawled new threats of death and imprisonment to all who wavered in their love for the Duce...
...military but political. Franco apparently reasoned that one reason for the failure of Primo de Rivera's earlier military dictatorship was that the government lacked any real popular basis. To cure that, while the war was still in progress he adopted the Falange Party, approved by Hitler and Mussolini...
...growing. They were led by Italian Army officers, stiffened by escaped British prisoners of war, aided by the countryside's peasantry. They controlled villages ungarrisoned by the enemy. They sabotaged rail and road communications vital to German transport. Against them the Nazis rallied the bedraggled remnant of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, decreed the death penalty. In Italy, too, the Germans were fighting a two-front...