Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
- Italians decide to try and establish themselves buy attacking the greeks
- they are unsuccessful
- Chose bad time of year in October
- Germans have to bail them out "Operation Maria"
- Also attack Yugoslavia with "Operation Punishment"
- Detrimental because it delays Operation Barbarossa. the attack on Russia
"For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.. " (From speech he delivered to Reichstag on 4 May 1941)
- Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler