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Originally Posted by Strengthandhonour

Actually, they aren't all amateur historians. Like I said, look at who wrote most of the articles. A lot are written by British and American scholars. So please, at least look over the site which I don't think you still have.

This website is a manifestation of work supported by amateur historians, history buffs and those interested in Italian World War Two history.

The Mussolini posters are there because they are associated with the period, most of the people that go to this site are history enthusiasts from the time period and find it interesting.

You'll probably find also many WN Americans fascinated with Italians fascism there.

How about staying alive? they did stay alive. Most of the time they just gave up, they didn't see a point on fighting.

So you think by giving up you're improving your chances of surviving? I wouldn't give up and give the enemy chance to do whatever he wants to me, just because I don't see a point in fighting that war. I don't know, this all sounds hard for me to believe.

If they didn't care about anything in war, why did they care about killing innocent population in Slovenia or sending them to concentration camps? And don't tell me this is just another politician fault, as Italians were eager to carry out executions.

Why didn't Germans have this mentality as well? They didn't fight in their own soil either and yet that didn't seem to be a problem for them. Maybe because they have more a "fighter" mentality, I don't know...

There also was, as you said yourself, good propaganda on Italian site during the war, you said that in many ways better than German...

Italians also didn't go much when the war was fought in their land...

I would correct myself a little, I wrote that Italians were cowards in ww2, more than Italians were cowards, there were disorganized and of little value as an army and as soldiers. There could have been of course some brave soldiers there, but that doesn't change the big picture. They didn't do much in ww2 and they constantly needed the help of Germans, they hardly conquered Albania, had a lot of problems in Greece until Germans came.. Not to mention the pre-war fighting against Ethiopia when Italians cowardly had to use the gas against an army on the level of stone age. And their humiliation in Albania in 1920. There were also crimes commited by Italians on civil population in Slovenia which I already mentioned before... All this doesn't seem much heroic to me.