Comments on: Italians in World War II

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:15:26 +0000

“ What a joke of a post. Italian soldiers were the disgrace of the germans,”

Most of your post is inaccurate. Italian formations were limited by poor armor, leadership, and arms…NOT the soldiers. Individual formations were often excellent.

Facts matter!
One case only: The American defeat at Kasserine Pass was by Italian troops.

By: Wehrmacht

Wehrmacht — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:40:01 +0000

What a joke of a post. Italian soldiers were the disgrace of the germans, Germany would be much better off alone than fighting with the Italians as allies. In fact Barbarossa was delayed because the disaster of Italian intervention in Greece sparked fear and turmoil in the balkans, so that Germany had to intervene to take control of the situation, postponing Barbarossa and thus giving the USSR a chance to stop the germans before the fall of Moscow, because winter had come. Had Barbarossa started earlier as planned, USSR would stand no chance and the war would be over.

By: Howard Tippin

Howard Tippin — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:20:13 +0000

It should be noted that Rommel considered the Italian Bersaglierri the finest light infantry in existence.

By: Anthony Losardo

Anthony Losardo — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 21:48:28 +0000

Let’s not omit that Italian-Americans were the LARGEST fraction of American forces during WWII

By: C. Marchesani

C. Marchesani — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 07:57:29 +0000

Yes I agree with your article which is a welcome departure from the usual brainless and sometimes racist stereotyping of Italy by those with little knowledge on the subject. Important to add that Italy was the last European State to become a unifies modern Nation and that it has no natural resources critical to sustain a war machine such as steel and petroleum and unable to source from it’s overseas territories as the Allies did. Also Britain and to a lesser extent with their Foreign Legion, were greatly assisted by their colonial subjects who in Britain’s case fought in large numbers. For Britain the largest numbers came from India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Italy had none.
Your article states that “Italian industrial power was a mere fraction of that of Britain, France or Germany” given this fact, why did France perform so poorly in both First and Second World Wars? It took Germany seven weeks to defeat France in WW2 . France with it’s experienced Leaders and greater war machine … how many battles did it win on it’s own during the two world wars?