How Did Mussolini Fall From Power?
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- Опубліковано 2 вер 2022
- How did Fascist Italy come to an end? Who stopped Mussolini? It happened in 1943 when the Allies had landed of Sicily and Rome was bombed. Italian morale was at an all time low. Italy in WW2 had performed very poorly despite being an ally of Germany. The military of Italy as an Axis power didn't perform well. Mussolini's fall from power would lead to the Italian armistice of 1943. Italy surrendered but then the Germans moved in...
History Hustle presents: How Did Mussolini Fall From Power?
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- The Fascist Experience in Italy (John Pollard).
- Mussolini's Italy. Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 (R. J. B. Bosworth).
- historiek.net/benito-mussolin... (27-98-2022).
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Mussolini could always be removed by legal means, because he was only the Prime Minister, not the head of State. Thus he could be dismissed by the King.
Indeed.
Correct. Few remember but Hitler only became the real Führer after Von Hindenburgs death in 1934, when he combined President and Chancellor into one person. Oddly enough there remaimed 2 seperate - competing - adminstrations. One Kanzlei ambt for his head of goverment affairs and a Presidential ambt for his head of state affairs.
Correct and that is what happened
It’s honestly weird why he never took supreme power from the King and why he even respected the independence of the grand council or the industries
Mussolini was inspired with Hitler how he successfully took complete power in Germany, so he planned get rid of the king with right time, lot about subject can be seen from diary of Duke Ciano about inner state of Mussolini ideas.
It should be taken into account that the Italians were never really interested in Germany, with the help of Germany they only wanted to regain the old territories from the Roman Empire. But when the war became serious, and the illusion of a quick German victory disappeared, the army and the people quickly realized that Germany would drag them into the abyss, so both the king and the military command decided to get rid of him.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Mussolini actually worked for British intelligence service in 1917, they paid him 100 pounds per week (around 10k today) to write pro-British and warmongering propaganda in WW1. Once an agent, always an agent.
British involvement in his death is also quite interesting, I guess he knew too much...
Thanks Stefan for another informative video. Many Italian soldiers resisted the Germans following the overthrow of Mussolini, and on the Greek island of Cephalonia, the former allies fought one another for a week before the Italians ran out of ammunition. In retaliation to this resistance the Germans summarily executed up to 4,000 Italian soldiers.
Yes, soon more on that 👍
Great snippet’s of history from history hustle again, he puts so much work into these episodes and deserves every bit of success 💙💙💙
Many thanks!
Just a curious note for those who love History:
"Italian Brazilians (Italian: italo-brasiliani) are Brazilians of full or partial Italian descent. Italian Brazilians are the largest number of people with full or partial Italian ancestry outside Italy, [...] The Brazilian census of 1940 asked Brazilians where their fathers came from. It revealed that at that time there were 3,275,732 Brazilians who were born to an immigrant father. Of those, 1,260,931 Brazilians were born to an Italian father. Italian was the main reported paternal immigrant origin, followed by Portuguese with 735,929 children, Spanish with 340,479 and German with 159,809 children." Wikipedia.
I have all of them mixed in my bloodline, except spanish, as far as I know. Many people here have all. Obrigado! 🇧🇷 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🏴
Thanks for sharing this.
My Grandfather was in Milan when they were strung up. He had a photo he took very similar to the image shown.
Wow, he witnessed a well known historical moment.
Interesting fact, when Mussolini was rescued by skorzeny and his commandos, the small plane carrying Mussolini to freedom nearly crashed because skorzeny insisted on joining the flight, which overloaded the plane
True. Didn't know about the overloaded plane.
Skorzeny was a grifter who inserted himself in an operation in which he had no merit.
Historic facts should never be forgotten , thank you for sharing Stefan, I appreciate your research 💪 have a great weekend ahead✌️
You too, Jesse. Cheers!
Except no one ever mention that Mussolini was a British agent in WW1 and paid 100 pound per week (around 10000 today) to write pro-British warmongering propaganda....
Thank you for this incredibly interesting part of WWII -- it is very infrequently discussed (too little) - So I appreciate your attention to this period.
Great, thanks👍
I enjoy your work very much👍. I wish I had history teacher’s like yourself during my youth.. But I do find I enjoy learning history well into adulthood..
Great to read, thanks👍
Stefan, thanks for another excellent video! As a Italian American I always look forward to your videos on Italy
Great 👍
Thanks for another great presentation. Your students are lucky to have you!
Nice to read, cheers!
Great video, love to see the channel still going strong as always.
Thanks to you and heart of iron I learned a lot about this conflict and I hope to keep learning!
Many thanks again 🙂
Your the best history teacher Stefan! Thanks so much for your videos
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Bravo Stefan ! another aspect of WW2 that people seem to take for granted, too myths about what became for the Italians a tragedy.
Thanks for watching.
Excellent video ... Thank you.
Thanks for your reply.
Great vídeo Thanks for sharing, very weird to realize that the pioneer of facism had a awful downfall. Duce place in history is explanained by his losing legacy, and most notably his public excecutting and humiliation.
Thank for watching as always 👍
Great upload!!
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Thanks for the history lesson.
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Nicely presented and an informative insight into one of World War 2's more unusual episodes.
Many thanks 🙂
Een onderwerp dat mij nog niet helemaal duidelijk was, maar nu wel. Bedankt!
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Allot Thanks Sir Stefan for sharing this excellent Historical coverage Video...always (History Hustle) channel sharing a wonderful History subjects Videos allot thanks
Many thanks Mohammed!
A man who is as committed to the historical stories he tells, just as much as he is committed to dressing like those of the topic. Where else can you find such entertainment?
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good job bro and nice outfit for the video bro
Thanks.
Another excellent video, Stefan. Also liked the Bulgarian fascist vid too. Somehow, someway you bring a little clarity to a very convoluted topics. Outstanding! Keep hustling and I'll keep watching. Cheers.
Many thanks Paul. Great to read 👍
That's a cool tie. Was that part of the standard uniform sir?
Yes, see my video about the Italian WW2 army!
Stefan...Why did you not show the whole picture of Mussonlini and the others hung upside down? It is a well-known photo of historical significance. I hope that UA-cam is not against historic images. Stephan in Ottawa
If I'd show the whole picture the video will get age restricted.
@@HistoryHustle I never thought of that. I suppose that we do not want to restrict the video only to adults. Great work regardless...Thanks again.
Fun fact re Mussolini’s great grandson.
‘Romano Benito Floriani Mussolini, also referred to as Mussolini Jr. by Italian media, is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back or right midfielder for Serie A club Lazio’
Sophia Loren is his great aunt apparently.
Interesting that he still sticks to the right...
Interesting to read.
There was also another important cirumstance - at that time (1942-43) Mussolini was very sick itself and already lost at least a part of control over the situation on fronts and inside the country. Partially because of his sickness Mussolini didn't resist (or even didn't want) against the opposition in his own inner circle.
Thanks for sharing.
Ciano, the man famous for being -the minister of foreign affairs- Mussolini’s son in law
Indeed.
@@HistoryHustle Nepotism sure was common in Fascist Italy
Great video. Maybe you can do a video about the italians who continued fighting with the germans, the italian who fought for the allies and the massacres of italian troops by germans. Also for the italian invasion of france in 1940.
Hope to cover these in the future one day. Thanks for your reply.
Such a buffoonish man.
How could anyone have taken him seriously?
Never mind, I'm an American.
I know the answer to that question.
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Lol
Very interesting . Maybe if Italy remained neutral , fascist could survive the war like Spain did . But when Italy entered the War in 1940 to get a piece of southern France , at that time the vision was that the war would go to an end after France surrender .
That face of Sir. Musso never gets old
True.
Off topic, apologies, but it looks like your map on the backdrop has NORDIRLAND written over... Wales and England.
Good job whoever was using it never got that far? ;)
This German map gives the name of the whole country: "England and Northern Ireland". The letters of the latter word ended up over England.
Very interesting video. My father described me that the situation of Italy was, in 1943, really desperate. I think that Grandi and the others were brave because Mussolini could jail them and also kill the inner oppositors. Many of the fascist leaders who voted against the Duce were captured and executed in 1944 in Verona, among them also Ciano.
Hi Marco, thanks for sharing this.
Greece said "Oxi" or "No" to the Sawdust Ceasar!! And proceeded to push back & humiliate him in Albania..The Italian people were ill-served by this dictator under whom they suffered greatly during WWII..
Cover the Metaxas regime in other videos in case you're interested:
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they should have stuck to cooking
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Marcus Garvey claimed to have invented fascism. A quick google search points to either an Italian poet named Gabriele d'Annunzio or Benito Mussolini. Louis Farrakhan was America's leading fascist for the second half of the 20th century. Nowadays, they're coming out of the woodwork.
I covered d'Annunzio here:
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I want to know more bout the Italian Social Republic and it’s Army.
Hopefully one day.
I served in West Germany with the RAF in the mid 1980's... Germans were still telling jokes about the Italians in ww2... tanks with 4 reverse years etc . 😎
Crazy!
me too my grandfather is a British soldier fighting at el alamein he says that german tanks has 1 forward gear and 4 reverse gear its cool right
Great piece of history explained, the Italians appear sitting ducks just hoping Germany can find them a path to victory that would never happen. An interesting idea for a video would be if there was ever a possibility of Mussolini switcing sides? Probably not given the Geography. Great video again Stefan!
Many thanks Joe!
Well I have heard of the Italian conspiracy theory that is something along the lines of Mussolini had a message for the allied powers which proposed Italy joining the Allies to destroy the USSR and that’s why the Italian partisans immediately executed him when they captured him instead of handing him over to the Allies. I think that’s how the conspiracy theory goes. Again….this isn’t a factual or anything.
@@franciscofranco5739 Interesting and food for thought non the less!
Italy, with some exceptions, lacked the quality of troops necessary to achieve the objectives Mussoline originally desired. For instance, the only victory Italy achieved in North Africa without German support was in Sidi Barrani in September 1940 and it was a limited victory really. Thanks Stefan!
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"-John Dalberg-Acton Mussolini blames everybody for his fate except himself it was always someone's else fault
Indeed.
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Great video.BZ.
Real Italian lanital? Mussolini had great faith in it.
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@@HistoryHustle I take it from the👍 that your shirt is real lanital, so an original.
In the early 1930s, Mussolini commanded Italians to create more of their own products.
One way they accomplished that was Milk clothing.
In 1935 Mussolini turned his full attention to lanital and it became a world wide success. On the military side lanital infused boots, blankets, and military uniforms-which Mussolini believed would resist poison gas did little to protect Italian soldiers, and led to 2,000 cases of frostbite during a battle against France. Also when blended with other fibres the resulting fabric would smell like sour milk when it got wet, no doubt immensely popular and great for morale.
A weak king and a weak prime minister in a weak state with a weak military.
Wasnt the best period in Italian history.
The italian king was an opportunist. Most of italy was " fascist" and then the allies landed and suddenly everyone was anti fascist. Italy would have been wise to stay neutrsl in the war but this was not a viable option for mussolini in 1939.
Italians also fought on the eastern front.
True.
Nice vídeo.Do you pretend to do one about the Italian Legion?29 SS division.
Thanks, hopefully one day. But there is a severe lack of photographs on the internet.
I have friends who make fun of the French capitulation at the start of WWII. In fact, their jest should have been directed at the Italians. Italy was on the winning side of WWI. Then this joker comes along spreading BS. He was able to subdue Ethiopia, although my recollection is that the Ethiopians fought valiantly. When Italy tried to subjugate the Balkans, they got their butts kicked. No wonder the people wanted him gone,
Il ducce on 28 Octobre 1940 : Imma invade Grecia
Il duce 12 days later: Mamma mia , Madonna sava l'italia
That invasion didn't went well for Italy...
Perché abbiamo ripetuto gli stessi errori
English please.
@@HistoryHustle the Italian language, do you know the Nazi country again ?, I live italy
Mussolini was mentally healthy by comparison
@@HistoryHustle as for everything. when it will be fashionable. allaro will be recognized worldwide
A little Warmonging
Indeed.
maybe. because no more cheap wheat......after all
Please explain.
Imagine bald Berlusconi
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You should make a video about the “foibe”, a genocide commited against the Italians in Dalmatia and Istria during and after the war by the yugoslav partisans who threw thousands of innocent civilians to death into so called “foibe”, deep holes/craters, a geographical feature of the area, to ethnically ‘cleanse’ the area from italians who had lived there for centuries.
I once did do the research on that one, but wasn't able to record it on location when visiting Croatia. Hope to do that in the future.
He should have removed the monarchy and installed a Republic with Il duce being both head of state and government.
Wonder how things would've played out...
@@HistoryHustle A more totalitarian and effective Italy during ww2.
I always asked myself how things would have turned out for Italy if Italo Balbo didn't die and they would have replaced Mussolini when he started to lose control of the situation (and of himself, he was pretty crazy at some point, you can see even in these pictures how much weight he had lost) with Balbo. Funnily enough, in America there is a street and a column with his name, probably the only fascist leader commemorated in the US.
One of the rare cases where a dictator was removed and the quality of life in the country actually improved. Italy didnt fall info a civil war like Iraq
Well actually some argued that a civil war in Italy did break out with the pro-Allies versus the pro-Axis.
6:39 TUTTO AL DUCE (It's a meme)
Didn't know this.
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@@HistoryHustle me too!!
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He was pretty damn good until the whole Hitler thing
italy was like the iraq of WW2, like iraq when it invaded kuwait it thought after taking over small countries it was the real deal but when it came up against real opposition got easily found out
It was the Soviets who were able to make the public think Fascism and National Socialism were the same thing. They were very different, Fascism welcoming Jews for starters (until 1938). The Fascists thought the Nazis were raced crazed nutjobs. In North America, Italian Fascism was widely seen by the Progressive movement as the "3rd Way" holy grail of an ideal State Engineered Society without going all-in on Leninism. FDR was enchanted by Mussolini and sent members of his brain trust to study Italy. Mussolini reviewed FDR's book Looking Forward, his New Deal master plan, complete with a plan to cartel-ize industry into government managed price fixing groups under the NRA (only stymied by the Supreme Court, prompting FDR's court packing attempt), and warmly approved, praising America's adoption of Fascist principles (the State leaving nothing to chance). And nowadays, in an attempt to dial up the irony meter to 11 I suppose, Progressives call small government conservatives Fascists.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
He was very anti-German until ~1937/8. Mussolini actually worked for British intelligence service in 1917, they paid him 100 pounds per week (around 10k today) to write pro-British and warmongering propaganda in WW1.