Few political associations have had as disastrous an outcome as the one forged between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The Axis alliance in defeat ultimately destroyed its two founders and their regimes, as well as the lives of millions of people in Europe, Africa, and Asia in the process. Yet the deeper motivations that were the root cause of the alliance between Germany and Italy, with the added ingredient of Imperial Japan and the political and personal relationship between Hitler and Mussolini, are explained while many aspects remain strangely mysterious even to this day. This book offers a complete chronicle of the Axis alliance.
The 14 meetings between Hitler and Mussolini...
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- 14 Jun 34: Venice - both are mutually unimpressed with each other
- 03 May 38: Rome - five days of cultural and military ceremonies
- 18 Mar 40: Brenner Pass - they discuss Hitler's coming powder keg
- 18 Jun 40: Munich - they discuss France's appeal for an armistice
- 04 Oct 40: Brenner Pass - they discuss the progress of the war
- 28 Oct 40: Florence - they discuss Italy's invasion of Greece
- 19 Jan 41: Berchtesgaden - Hitler offers military help in North Africa
- 02 Jun 41: Brenner Pass - they discuss the progress of the war
- 25 Aug 41: East Prussia - Mussolini visits the Wolf's Lair
- 28 Aug 41: Ukraine - they visit Army Group South near the Russian Front
- 30 Apr 42: Berchtesgaden - they discuss a Mediterranean strategy
- 07 Apr 43: Salzburg - they discuss how to keep Italy in the war
- 19 Jul 43: Feltre - their last meeting before Mussolini is ousted from power
- 15 Sep 43: Germany - Deposed, imprisoned and rescued, Mussolini is taken for a final visit with Hitler
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Italy in WWII...
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- 28 Oct 22: Fascist Mussolini takes control of Italy
- 11 Feb 29: Lateran Treaty signed between Mussolini and the Vatican
- 03 Oct 35: Italy invades Ethiopia
- 06 Nov 37: Italy signs the Anti-Comintern Pact
- 10 Jun 40: Italy declares war on Britain and France
- 21 Jun 40: Italy unsuccessfully invades southern France
- 27 Sep 40: Italy signs Tripartite Pact with Germany and Japan
- 09 Jul 43: Allies invade Sicily
- 25 Jul 43: Italy's king imprisons Mussolini, replaces him with Badoglio
- 08 Sep 43: Italy surrenders to Allies; Germans seize Rome and northern Italy
- 09 Sep 43: Italian forces in German-controlled areas made prisoners of war
- 04 Jun 44: Allies liberate Rome - one down, two to go
- 27 Apr 45: Mussolini captured by Anti-Fascist partisans and executed
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