THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 776, sig. 110-5/66

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110a - 2 - to have greater clarity about the change of government in Italy. After all, the Abhse as a work of Hitler and Mussolini was founded on a worldly basis, it rested on the approximate concordance of the two revolutions, it represented the political and military cohesiveness of National Socialism and Fascism. It is unthinkable, however, that a revolution, a system from yesterday to today, could disappear from the surface of the image, as if it had never been there. Until now, it was believed that the loyalty of the German-Italian alliance was primarily supported by Mussolini and the fascist party, while the Italian-isohe royal family tried to drive more or less sabotage with the other reactionary currents in Italy. More German-friendly and axle-conscious than Mussolini and fasohism Badoglio, Umberto and the whole Italian royal house could not be nes- if. What is nationalisticism, the leader himself, there? Assuming always that it was not the leader himself who forced Mussolini's Soheide himself, was Mussolitis' deportation and everything related to it nothing other than a provocation of Germany? The prerequisite of the mutual alliance, as has often been stressed, was fascism and national socialism. If the Fascist Party were to be destroyed in all appearances, then the contrahenteine treaty would fall away. It is conceivable that Mussolini made clear to the leader the weaknesses of his position and the strength of his opposition, l00% of support, which he demanded, however, for reasons of the . Not able, uhd did not get that in this way his fall - could not be prevented. However, Deutsohland could not have been so weak and so little could the leader for Mussolini not have had over had that mussolini ptactically had to be sacrificed to the German and aohsen enemy direction. In order to understand the entire monstrousness of the events, 9SEM had to be kept in mind only what Mussolini has been up to now and faced with, the almost laughable report of the agency Stefani, according to which "one assumes that this change of government is due to the health condition of the Duce, who had recently fallen ill! A lazily small prime minister of a democratic dwarf state will not even be overturned in his demission in this way, as with this man, who decades in Europe a 77190