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Mussolini sent a warship to shell the Greek island of Corfu, and Italian forces occupied the island on 31 August 1923.
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Mussolini and sent
In October 1935, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini sent 400, 000 troops to invade Abyssinia ( Ethiopia ).
On the following day, 31 July 1944, in view of the likely invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Polish actress Pola Negri, claiming to be Valentino's fiancée, collapsed in hysterics while standing over the coffin, and Campbell's hired four actors to impersonate a Fascist Blackshirt honor guard, which claimed to have been sent by Benito Mussolini.
During the 1930s, Gelli volunteered for the " Black Shirts " expeditionary forces sent by Mussolini to Spain in support of Francisco Franco's rebellion, and subsequently became a liaison officer between the Italian government and the Third Reich, with contacts including Hermann Göring.
Ultimately Mussolini was sent to Gran Sasso, a mountain resort in central Italy ( Abruzzo ).
Mussolini ( left ) and Hitler sent their armies to North Africa and into Egypt against the British
In September 1940, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini sent Italian forces stationed in Libya to launch an invasion into British-held Egypt and set up defensive forts at Sidi Barrani.
At the end of 1926 Bordiga was again arrested by Mussolini and sent to prison for three years.
After 18 months of alterne eventsm, on the 17th September 1923 Gaetano Giardino, an Italian General, was sent by Benito Mussolini with the task to reinstall the public order.
The newspaper then sent him to Italy, where he reported on opposition leader Giacomo Matteotti's murder, implicated Benito Mussolini in Matteotti's death, and was again expelled.
The Chicago Tribune sent him to Italy where he wrote about Benito Mussolini and the rise of fascism.
While many nations refused to become involved in the Spanish Civil War, notably Britain and France, troops were sent by both Hitler and Mussolini to aid the Spanish nationalists, which included those with fascist leanings.
His political philosophy can be seen from a postcard he sent in the 1930s, on which he wrote what can be seen as an epitaph for Mussolini ’ s Italy: Empires die, but Euclid ’ s theorems keep their youth forever.
After the downfall of Benito Mussolini and the occupation of Italy by Nazi Germany, Karl Hass was sent to Rome to set up a network of radio operators and to organize saboteurs behind the invading Allied lines.
In June 1940, after the Battle for France was all but over, Italy joined Germany and dictator Benito Mussolini sent forces to the desert region in December and counterattacked.
Thus, he persuaded King Victor Emmanuel III to grant him a title in 1937, and managed to retain a comfortable position until he was sent by Mussolini to the Greek Front with the other Gerarchi in 1941.
Between 1937 and 1938 he was sent to prison for his protesting an envoy sent to Peru by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
In response, German officials of the 1930s sent the group's leaders to Nazi concentration camps, and Benito Mussolini banned its Italian affiliate.
Soon after Mussolini was overthrown, the Nazis invaded Italy, and Italian Jews had to go into hiding or be sent to the concentration camps.
Skorzeny attacked the radio operator and his equipment, and formally greeted Mussolini with " Duce, the Führer has sent me to set you free!
To this end, in May 1933, he petitioned the Italian Premier, Benito Mussolini, " to ask his assistance in guaranteeing that the Siena quarries sent nothing inferior to the official sample marble ".
An expectationally interesting document-the reports on the clandestine press sent to Benito Mussolini between 1943 and 1945-makes it possible to sweep away these accusations which were fabricated by the Stalinists:
Mussolini and Greek
Mussolini, in October 1940, used his Albanian base to launch an attack on Greece, which led to the defeat of the Italian forces and the Greek occupation of Southern Albania in what was seen by the Greeks as the liberation of Northern Epirus.
Whatever the results of the investigation, Mussolini insisted that the Greek government pay Italy fifty million lire in reparations.
Prominent examples include the Ancient Assyrian Empire, the Greek city state of Sparta, the Roman Empire, the Aztec nation, the Kingdom of Prussia, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( which would later become part of the Soviet Union ), the Italian Colonial Empire during the reign of Benito Mussolini, Nazi Germany and American Imperialism.
In Greece, while the government of the Kingdom of Italy surrendered and many Italian soldiers in the Aegean were tired of the war and had become opposed to Mussolini, Italian Fascist loyalists remained allied to Germany in the Greek campaign.
* Okhi Day, Greek anniversary to commemorate Greek Prime Minister Metaxas's rejection of the ultimatum made by Mussolini
Ohi Day ( also spelled Ochi Day, Epeteios tou "' Ohi ", Anniversary of the " No ") is celebrated throughout Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities around the world on October 28 each year, to commemorate the rejection by Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas ( in power from August 4, 1936, until January 29, 1941 ) of the ultimatum made by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on October 28, 1940.
Mussolini and island
The Allies drove Axis air, land and naval forces from the island ; the Mediterranean's sea lanes were opened and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was toppled from power.
After the king dismissed Mussolini in the summer of 1943, the latter was initially taken via Gaeta to the island prison of Ponza.
Mussolini himself was imprisoned on the island for several weeks after being overthrown and arrested in 1943.
As a result, Adolf Hitler was so convinced of the veracity of the bogus documents that he disagreed with Benito Mussolini that Sicily would be the most likely invasion point, insisting that any incursion against the island should be regarded as a feint.
The British leadership had further doubts about whether to hold the island in May 1940 when French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud reported that the situation in France was dire, but that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini might be appeased by concessions, including Malta.
Only six obsolete Gloster Sea Gladiator biplanes were stationed on the island, with another six in crates, when on 10 June 1940, Mussolini declared war on the United Kingdom and France.
On 29 – 30 April 1942, a plan for the invasion of the island was approved by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during a meeting at Berchtesgaden.
Mussolini, who called Leros " the Corregidor of the Mediterranean ", saw the island as a crucial base for the Italian domination of the eastern Aegean Sea, and even built a mansion for himself in the town of Portolago.
A prison camp was created under the Bourbons and restructured under Benito Mussolini on the island of Santo Stefano, where up to 700 opponents, including 400 communists, were incarcerated between 1939 and 1943.
In reality, she just bought the island from her lover, Benito Mussolini.
Mussolini and Corfu
In 1923, Mussolini temporarily occupied Corfu, using irredentist claims based on minorities of Italians in the Ionian islands of Greece.
Mussolini and Italian
* 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
* 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
* 1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement ; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape.
Clara Petacci ( born Claretta Petacci ; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945 ) was the mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who was twenty-eight years her senior.
On 27 April 1945, when a convoy of escaping Italian Social Republic members, including Mussolini, was captured by Communist partisans, it is said that Petacci was offered the opportunity to go unmolested.
Mussolini established the Italian Empire in May 1936.
Mussolini also mobilized a part of the Italian army on the Austrian border and threatened Hitler with war in the event of a German invasion of Austria to thwart the putsch.
The decision to move to America and become American citizens was primarily a result of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism.
Lenin regretted that Mussolini had abandoned Marxism and had become an anti-communist, as Lenin believed that Mussolini had once been the best public figure of Marxism in Italy, and blamed the Italian Socialist Party for having " lost " Mussolini.
In October 1939 Mussolini had considered making a public statement to the Italian people that would announce Fascist Italy's abandonment of hostility to the ideology of Stalin's Soviet Union by claiming that Stalin's regime had effectively dissolved Bolshevism and that it had been replaced by a Slavic fascism.
" Mussolini claimed that Italian Fascism's economic system of corporatism could be identified as state capitalism which he claimed was state socialism " turned on its head ", which in either case involved " the bureaucratisation of the economic activities of the nation.
Mussolini promoted the Italian intervention in the war as a revolutionary nationalist action to liberate Italian-claimed lands from Austria-Hungary.
Upon being appointed Prime Minister of Italy, Mussolini had to form a coalition government, because the Fascists did not have control over the Italian parliament.
On 3 January 1925, Mussolini addressed the Fascist-dominated Italian parliament and declared that he was personally responsible for what happened, but he insisted that he had done nothing wrong.
One early admirer of the Italian Fascists was Adolf Hitler, who, less than a month after the March, had begun to model himself and the Nazi Party upon Mussolini and the Fascists.
Mussolini called for irredentist Italian claims to be reclaimed, establishing Italian domination of the Mediterranean Sea and securing Italian access to the Atlantic Ocean, and the creation of Italian spazio vitale (" vital space ") in the Mediterranean and Red Sea regions.
Mussolini believed that following a brief entry of Italy into war with France, followed by the imminent French surrender, Italy could gain some territorial concessions from France and then concentrate its forces on a major offensive in Egypt where British and Commonwealth forces were outnumbered by Italian forces.
Mussolini was rescued from arrest by German forces and led the German client state, the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945.
On 28 April 1945, Mussolini was captured and executed by Italian communist partisans.
The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that the Benito Mussolini only " used to send people on vacation ", denying the existence of Italian concentration camps, such as Rab concentration camp.
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