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

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111 = 3 = the most important role was played. If the friendship between Hitler and Mussolini still exists, then the leader, who repeatedly and repeatedly affirmed his friendship with Mussolin, who himself drew the attention of the German people to fascism and its revolution, could not let this happen. It would be fundamentally and fundamentally contrary to what was so far used to by the Führer if he let a man whom he called a congenial friend be the victim of an enemy kamarilla. The perplexity of the German press comments, however, is striking and allows the unpleasant Sohluss that Germany does not yet have an attitude towards the events in Rome, has no clarity and does not at all know how it should behave. The new Italian government may have made a tactically rather good maneuver, in which it torpedoed the foundations of the world-ansohaulioh-founded alliance by the cold position of the fascist party, but on the other hand it offered its sentence "the war continues" and that Italy, as a jealous leader of its thousand-year tradition, "holds allegiance to the given word" as another loyal alliance partner. As long as there is no concrete evidence of the certainty that Italy, under its new leadership, would want to leave the war, Germany could perhaps do nothing more than consider the completion of Mussolini and fascism in Italy as an internal political matter of the same, although it was not such for a long time. The enemy leads the fight against National Socialism and Fascism as an official war goal. If fascistism in Italy is made dead internally, then the enemy has already achieved one of his two war targets. If the Anglo-Americans were to impose restraint in a so-called propagandist manner and draw a dividing line between the Italian people and fascism, then with a good part of the probability it would also be possible to expect serious consequences for Germany, for National Socialism and for the leader. Various fears about Mussolini's life and also about life, but at least the freedom Carlo S o o r z a s are loud. In the German propaganda it had looked as if the fascist-isohe party under the leadership of Scorza would become a great inner cleansing and purification process, yes, as if all of Italy through the