STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2491, sig. 109-12/138

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Berlin SO 36 Reichenbergerstr. 791 Prof.Werner Berlin, 27 October 1941 DerMarschaufRome 38517 (Ein Erlebnisbericht) Tomorrow marks the 19th anniversary of the March on Rome. For the correct understanding of this world-historical event, it is not only the revolutionary nature and dynamics that must be taken into account which led in Italy, so to speak, inevitably from the war to the march to Rome. - The originals were still further behind, mainly the 54 democratic governments v o r Mussolini, who in a six-year reign of a system were not able to cope with the tasks of the country. Uncertainty, lawlessness, mafia and corruption were the external hallmarks besides immorality and slave trade with children. Italy was at least 15o years behind the European level of production in 1922, the south of the country wanted to know nothing about the north of Italy and there was a reversal of fragmentation as before. In the absence of any colonial policy, there was a lack of raw materials: damages that aRrancesco d knew but could not eliminate. In addition, the hatred between Pope and King, dated September 2, 187o, since those days, occupied by the Vatican, a hatred that created only conflicts of conscience, kept away the best from the services of the Fatherland, especially since every service on the Father's land prohibited. e things drove to the solution! ssolini told us schøn 192o in the meeting h:"La Rivolußione deve avere sopratutto un