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Pietro Badoglio

Badoglio was an Italian general and politician.

Person

  • Pietro Badoglio
  • Born on: Sept. 28, 1871
  • Born in: Grazzano Badoglio, Italië
  • Died on: Nov. 1, 1956
  • Died in: Grazzano Badoglio, Italië

After the fall of Mussolini, King Victor Emanuel III appointed Badoglio Prime Minister of Italy.[1] Despite Badoglio dismissing rumours of a ceasefire on 8 September 1943, the newspapers announced the surrender of Italy on 9 September. As soon as Mussolini was voted out of power in July, Berlin made it known it would not ignore the betrayal of Badoglio’s government.[2] Due to internal opposition, Badoglio resigned from his post in 1944.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Wikipedia: Pietro Badoglio.
  2. ^ “Onvoorwaardelijke capitulatie van Italië”, Het Vaderland, 9 september 1943; Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 10 September 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.