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The relationship between Mussolini and Adolf Hitler was a contentious one early on. While Hitler cited Mussolini as an influence and privately expressed great admiration for him, [218] Mussolini had little regard for Hitler, especially after the Nazis had his friend and ally, Engelbert Dollfuss, the Austrofascist dictator of Austria, killed in ...
It is a study of the Axis alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. 1966 revised edition. It was published by Oxford University Press as a 376-page hardcover, in 1949 (after the war). In 1966, Collins published a 446-page revised edition.
From 1925, King Victor Emmanuel III delegated his powers to Mussolini and opposition to Mussolini and the Fascist state was seen as treason. Though his regime influenced Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, Mussolini did not subscribe to Nazi racial theories, dismissing them as mythical and fabricated. Only in 1938, under increased pressure from ...
He was an ideologue way ahead of Hitler in terms of establishing a brutal fascist agenda, before ultimately plunging his country into war alongside the Nazis. Yet Mussolini: Son of the Century ...
With this disagreement over Austria, relations between Hitler and Mussolini steadily became more distant. [19] Hitler attempted to break the impasse with Italy over Austria by sending Hermann Göring to negotiate with Mussolini in 1933 to convince Mussolini to press Austria to appoint Austrian Nazis to the government. [20]
The two men saw each other for a final time on 20 July 1944 in the immediate aftermath of the Stauffenberg assassination attempt, when Mussolini paid the injured Hitler a consolation visit, though this did not constitute a diplomatic conference. Between July 1944 and their deaths in April 1945, Hitler and Mussolini did not see each other again ...
The Pact of Steel (German: Stahlpakt, Italian: Patto d'Acciaio), formally known as the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy (German: Freundschafts- und Bündnispakt zwischen Deutschland und Italien, Italian: Patto di amicizia e di alleanza fra l'Italia e la Germania) was a military and political alliance between Italy and Germany, signed in 1939.
On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin between collapsing German forces and Soviet armed forces. Shortly afterward, Germany surrendered and the Nazi regime was dismantled and key Nazi members were arrested to stand trial for crimes against humanity including the Holocaust.