What Italian Soldiers Said After Fighting Greeks — Their Commanders Tried to Bury It
Mussolini promised his generals Greece would fall in two weeks. His soldiers were told this was a military walk. Italy had four times the aircraft, modern tanks, and one of the most elite mountain divisions in Europe — the Julia Alpini, men who had fought in the Alps their whole lives. None of it mattered. What Italian soldiers actually encountered in the mountains of Greece in the winter of 1940 was something no briefing had prepared them for. Their letters home, their diary entries, their after-action reports — all tell the same story. An enemy that wouldn't break. An enemy that fought on ground it understood better than any army had a right to. An enemy that pushed back. This is what they wrote. This is what they said. In their own words, from the front lines of one of the most shocking reversals of the entire Second World War. Subscribe and hit the bell 🔔 — we cover the stories that didn't make the textbooks. Sources: Cervi, Mario. The Hollow Legions: Mussolini's Blunder in Greece. Chatto & Windus, 1972 Koliopoulos, John S. Greece and the British Connection 1935–1941. Clarendon Press, 1977 Mackenzie, Compton. Wind of Freedom: The History of the Invasion of Greece by the Axis Powers. Chatto & Windus, 1943 Papagos, Alexandros. The Battle of Greece 1940–1941. Hellenic Publishing, 1949 Van Creveld, Martin. Hitler's Strategy 1940–1941: The Balkan Clue. Cambridge University Press, 1973 Italian Military Archives — Regimental After-Action Reports, Albanian Front, 1940–1941 #WorldWarII #Greece #ItalianArmy #GreekHistory #Alpini #WorldWar2 #WW2History #MilitaryHistory #AxisPowers #GrecoItalianWar #WW2Documentary #HistoryChannel #ForgottenHistory #WorldWarTwo
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