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190 - Mussolini's Last 10 Days

The WW2 Podcast

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Adolf Hitler and the Germans

He was still effectively even ten days before his death, he was effectively the head of state. Adolf Hitler had a great friendship for Mussolini, which is sometimes neglected to discuss and he was always out to save him from all his adventures. So he had a strong German escort, an SS man and anSS man and also a secret service man. It was a massive convoy actually, yes, that went to Milan. Yeah, it was, yeah. And of course, with the knowledge that the Allies were hammering at the door, actually suspicions of their German Allies because they went to Quynum on them all along. So yeah, it was quite a cavalcade anyway.

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