Is Italy a victorious country in World War II?

Italy was known as one of the three fascist powers in World War II, but its war history can be said to be the most humorous. Oh, my God ... how can a country like Italy be ... speechless ... But since it can be called one of the top three, Italy should be better than other junior countries. Let's take a look at Italy's national situation and strategy at that time. It would be more cost-effective to see what Italy did at that time ...

Italy, like Japan, was defined as a rising industrial country. In World War I, the Italian government abandoned its alliance with the Second Reich and Austria-Hungary, and turned to Britain and France, thus gaining the status of a victorious country in World War I. However, in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Italy did not benefit as much as Britain, France and the United States, or even returned. Japan somehow received its privileges in China and some German island colonies in the Pacific Ocean from the defeated Germany, and also divided several battleships of the German ocean fleet, and earned enough weight in the subsequent naval negotiations, and became a second-class sea power country that stood side by side with Italy and France and was second only to Britain and the United States. Italy, on the other hand, didn't even get an overseas colony in Germany! Compared with the trauma brought to Italy by the war, this little gain is simply a drop in the bucket. As a result, Italy's domestic economy began to retrogress, the political situation became unstable, and new ideological trends began to flood ... The government could not control the situation ... In 1922, Mussolini's fascist party came to power, and Italy became the first fascist country with dictatorship. However, fascism failed to save Italy. From 1922 to 1931, Italy's economic situation continued to deteriorate, and the number of unemployed people continued to increase. At the same time, Italy's foreign aggression and expansion situation was not optimistic. Italy's military strength has not made any great progress because of fascist dictatorship and militarism. The Italian army with low morale and internal corruption soon suffered in the later wars ...

At that time, Germany was ambivalent about Italy's participation in the war, which reflected the following joke: If Italy joined the allies, Germany would send a division to defeat Italy; If Italy remains neutral, then Germany will send four divisions to monitor Italy; If Italy wants to join the Axis, then Germany will send eight divisions to protect Italy; As a result, some people say: after defeating Italy, Germany will still send people to monitor and protect Italy. I prefer Italians to be neutral!

once, Rommel found a British prison camp holding Italian prisoners of war in Africa, and he led the army to rescue the Italians. As a result, the Italians followed the British as soon as the gunfire rang ...

In 43, when the Allies landed in Italy, there was a battlefield. The Allies fought fiercely all morning, and no one was killed or injured. The only loss was that their planes threw airborne troops into the sea (using the sandbar as a beachhead).

During the landing war in Sarawak, the Allies encountered no resistance on the beach. The army correspondent reported that the strongest resistance the Allies encountered on the beach came from a jaguar that escaped from the local zoo because of bombing and bit two American soldiers.

There were two small islands in front of Sardinia where more than 1, Italians were stationed. But in the end, the allied bombing killed more than 4 Italians, and Italy accepted the surrender of the American pilots.

In the early stage of the North African War, an Italian fortress flew a white flag after the British fired several rounds of bullets, and the Italian commander solemnly said to the British commander, "We have fired the last bullet." At this time, his side in the fortress was full of Italian-made munitions.

In Yugoslavia, a German officer captured by guerrillas was very surprised and asked, "Where did you get the anti-tank guns?" When the guerrillas told him that they had taken it from their ally, the Italians, he was filled with emotion: "Alas! These lovely Italians. "

In the Battle of North Africa, British tanks charged at Italian anti-tank gun positions, and the number was small. At the beginning of the charge, the Italians fired back. After just 2 or 3 minutes of shooting, they suddenly stopped resisting and raised a white flag. When the British asked why, the Italians confidently said, "Because our ammunition box was not opened with a crowbar, we were forced to surrender."

On June 3th, 194, the Italian Governor in Libya, Marshal Barbo, was shot down by Italy's own anti-aircraft artillery over Tobruk. In order to cover up this tragic event, the Italians announced that Marshal was killed in an air battle with the British. Marshal graziani became his successor. This may be the most brilliant battle of the Italian air defense forces in World War II, which is comparable to the US military's killing of Isoroku Yamamoto.

Barbo was the highest rank soldier who was accidentally injured in World War II.

In North Africa, the 5,-strong Italian army met a roadblock set up by a company of British troops and disarmed on the spot.

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In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, Hitler thought Italy and Mussolini were examples of Nazi Germany and praised them. After all, Italy was an "imperialist country", and it was an encouragement for the whole fascism for political parties with similar aims to gain political power in that country (Hitler and Mussolini also made many jokes here). In 1935, the Spanish civil war broke out and Italy invaded Ethiopia. In both wars, the performance of the Italian army was not good, and the Spanish civil war was slightly better, at least with the help of the German intervention army. There was no big embarrassment. The invasion of Ethiopia was ugly, and the drama of the Ethiopian war from 1887 to 1896 was almost staged. If the appeasement policy of Britain and France and the pressure on Italy were not great enough, it is hard to imagine that Italy could fight on ... In short, the situation of Italy before the war was far less good than that of Germany and Japan (people were militarily excellent and diplomatic adventures were relatively successful, while Italy was a continental European country, and the level of the army even had problems bullying African aborigines.

When dealing with the strategy of World War II, Italy always wants to be on a par with Germany and Japan, trying to appear very important, but in fact, it is one of the chief culprits that drag down the whole axis camp. See where there is Italy in Greece, the Balkans and North Africa, and other European Axis forces will have to fill it. The most direct result is the dispersion of military forces. For Germany, Italy's most important ally, the most important mistake in helping Italy's ambitions in the Balkans was the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece, which directly dispersed the armored forces and motorized forces that were already precious, and delayed the plan to invade the Soviet Union. In other words, it wasted the assault forces in the main attack direction and artificially "advanced" the arrival of the winter in time. All this is due to the weak and incompetent Italian army. Originally, 5, Italian troops had a better chance of invading the Balkans. Even if it didn't go well, it wouldn't have been defeated so quickly. Italy is a typical toad yawning-big mouth and small belly ...

For Italy, the wiser strategy in World War II is to take the defensive in North Africa, stall and attack the British H fleet and the Mediterranean sub-fleet, and cut off the connection between Egypt-Suez Canal and Britain in the Mediterranean as much as possible. From the strength of Italy, it is more realistic to do this. Italian boots go deep into the Mediterranean, and Sardinia and Sicily are guarding the Mediterranean. If the operational thinking of the Italian Air Force and Navy can keep up with the level of World War II, the life of the British Navy in the Mediterranean will be very sad. Unfortunately, Italy, with the world's top navies at that time, kept such a good geographical advantage that it could not compete with a British sub-fleet ... In fact, the performance of Italian Air Force fighters is very good, and the level of MC.2 series belongs to the same level as that of ME19, but it is funny that advanced aircraft are not equipped with radios ... What can we expect the Italian Air Force to play? As for the land battlefield, it does not belong to Italy's expertise. It should have organized some elite troops to be at the forefront with other Axis forces, while shrinking a large number of second-rate troops at that time to help the Germans deal with guerrillas (the Italian army is better than guerrilla units no matter how poorly equipped it is). Imagine that nearly a million Italian troops, as the main force, cooperate with a small number of German troops to deal with guerrillas. If they are properly commanded, they will still have a considerable containment of guerrilla activities. Here, we only talk about containment, not eradication, because for any country, guerrillas cannot be completely eliminated. Just control their activities within the allowable range and don't fantasize about eliminating them.

Italy's greatest contribution to Germany actually appeared after he defected to the Allies ... Funny-a large number of Italian war material reserves were looted by the Germans, which led to the peak of German military production during World War II in 1943.

The biggest problem in Italy lies in Mussolini's stupidity, arrogance and incompetence. If Mussolini didn't pay so much attention to the so-called face, but had a detailed division of labor with Germany and complementary advantages, there wouldn't be so many failures and jokes. A general's incompetence will kill the three armed forces, and the commander's incompetence will even lead to his country's failure. Personally, Mussolini is the second largest black sheep after Gorbachev in the last century ... At least Mussolini lost his home, but Gorbachev lost the Soviet Union for 7 years. ......