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Badoglio was not in favour of the Italian-German Pact of Steel and was pessimistic about the chances of Italian success in any European war but he did not oppose the decision of Mussolini and the King to declare war on France and Great Britain.
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For the latter Berlinguer was a member of the second government formed by Pietro Badoglio in southern Italy.
Southern Italy, meanwhile, was nominally under the control of the new legitimist government of Badoglio, continuing as the Kingdom of Italy.
A temporary alliance between them and the Badoglio government was created by the decision of Joseph Stalin and Palmiro Togliatti, secretary of the Italian Communist Party, to postpone the problem of the state organisation and focus all efforts on the struggle against Hitler's puppet state in the North.
The Prince was accompanied on that trip by Minister of Foreign Affairs Felix Pacheco and the Italian ambassador in Brazil, Pietro Badoglio.
What was known as the " Badoglio Government " joined the Allies against the Axis.
It was Badoglio and not Graziani who entered Addis Ababa in triumph after his " March of the Iron Will ".
A new government under Marshal Pietro Badoglio was established which became a co-belligerent and part of the allies.
Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956 ) was an Italian soldier and politician.
Badoglio was named Prime Minister of Italy and while mass confusion in Italy reigned, he eventually signed an armistice with the Allies.
In June 1944, Badoglio was replaced by Ivanoe Bonomi of the Labour Democratic Party.
He was born in Grazzano Monferrato ( later Grazzano Badoglio ) in the province of Asti ( Piedmont ).
Post-war, Badoglio was named as a Senator, but also remained in the army with special assignments to Romania and the U. S. in 1920 and 1921.
On 25 June 1926, Badoglio was promoted to the rank of Marshal of Italy ( Maresciallo d ' Italia ).
Badoglio was the first unique governor of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica ( Italian Libya ) from 1929 to 1933.
Badoglio was not in East Africa when Emilio de Bono began the invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935.
After the 26 December torture and murder of downed Italian pilot Tito Minniti Badoglio asked for and was given permission to use chemical warfare.
Badoglio was immediately faced with the Ethiopian " Christmas Offensive " and he sought and received approval for the use of mustard gas.
On this occasion, Badoglio was appointed the first Viceroy and Governor General of Ethiopia and ennobled with the victory title of Duke of Addis Abeba.
Badoglio was replaced by Ugo Cavallero.
On 8 September the armistice document was published by the Allies in the Badoglio Proclamation.
It was published before Badoglio could communicate news of the switch to the Italian armed forces.
Badoglio was never tried for war crimes by the Allies primarily because he helped them during the invasion of Italy.
After Mussolini was removed from power on 25 July 1943 and arrested, the government of Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943, which was made public only on 8 September 1943, and the Italian army collapsed.
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* Pietro Badoglio, General, Italian Army
Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia requested extradition of 1, 200 Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like Nuremberg trial, because the British government with the beginning of cold war saw in Pietro Badoglio a guarantee of an anti-communist post-war Italy.
From 1922 to 1928, Italian forces under General Pietro Badoglio waged a punitive pacification campaign.
* 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
* 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship off Malta.
* November 1 – Pietro Badoglio, Italian general and prime minister ( b. 1871 )
* September 28 – Pietro Badoglio, Italian general and prime minister ( d. 1956 )
* Italian Social Republic ( 1943 – 1945, known also as the Republic of Salò )-General Pietro Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel III withdrew Italy from the Axis Powers and moved the government in southern Italy, already conquered by the Allies.
The experiences which del Valle gained as an observer led him to author the book " Roman Eagles Over Ethiopia " where he describes the events leading up to the Italian expedition and the complete movements of combat operations by the Italian Army under Generals De Bono, Badoglio, and Graziani.
On 29 September, Gort, together with Generals Eisenhower and Alexander, witnessed Marshal Badoglio signing the Italian surrender in Valletta harbour.
The king and Badoglio fled Rome leaving the Italian Army with no orders to follow.
In the years after World War I, in which he held several high ranks in the Italian Army, Badoglio exerted a constant effort in modifying official documents in order to hide his role in the defeat.
On 24 January 1932, Badoglio proclaimed the end of Libyan resistance for the first time since the Italian invasion in 1911.
Badoglio commanded the Italian invasion army at the First Battle of Tembien, the Battle of Amba Aradam, the Second Battle of Tembien, and the Battle of Shire.
On 5 May 1936, Marshal Badoglio led the victorious Italian troops into Addis Ababa.
Badoglio returned to his duties as the Supreme Chief of the Italian General Staff.
On 3 September, General Giuseppe Castellano signed the Italian armistice with the Allies in Cassibile on behalf of Badoglio.
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General Pietro Badoglio told the King that the military would be able to rout the rebels, who numbered no more than 10, 000 men, without any difficulty.
At the same time Badoglio issued the Badoglio Proclamation directing Italian troops to end hostilities against the Allies but to oppose attacks " from any other quarter ".
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