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Originally Posted by Strengthandhonour
The people didn't care because their heart wasn't behind the war
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It is what I always thought.
They had no motivation because it was not their war, they just didn't want.
Just compare the issues of the conquests of Tripolitania or Ethiopia: these campaigns were led with a masterfull hand just because the motivation was greater (a side comentary ; it was during the Ethiopia campaign that italians actually invented the refrigerated container in order to ship meat supplies to their troops fighting in East Africa
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I think Mussolini started this war just to please Hitler.
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Originally Posted by agamemnon
Hmmm.....the battle with Greece was not as easy as this web site says so. |
The battle of Greece was easy for no one and even the Hitler admited it in a speech made at the Reichstag in 1941:
"Historical justice obliges me to state that of the enemies who took up positions against us, the Greek soldier particularly fought with the highest courage. He capitulated only when further resistance had become impossible and useless." He also also ordered the release, and repatriation of all Greek prisoners of war after diarming them, "because of their gallant bearing."