WWII Italian Quotes


"You are not calm enough to judge the situation, Marshall Badoglio. I can tell you everything will be over by September, and that I need only a few thousand casualties to sit at the conference table as a belligerent."

--Benito Mussolini, 1940

Italy in France 1940 Campaign

"Eight million bayonets we have, says Il Duce. Eight million bayonets and 40 million rationing cards: that's a sure recipe for losing the war."

From an Italian newsvendor the day Mussolini declared war


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