My grandpa being the decorated in 1942 for saving what was left of the cruiser Trento’s crew the, sunk during the allied operation Harpoon. He was a machinist engineer. Later half of his family would sadly be executed by the Germans for harboring fugitives destined to concentration camps.Submitted by LUNA_FOOD t3_z0wnno in OldSchoolCool
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Antisemitism was considered backwards and gauche in 1930s Italy. Mussolini openly mocked Hitler’s racial theories when Hitler first came to power.
Mussolini’s turn to appease Hitler to secure the military alliance was widely unpopular.
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