Rome Has Fallen: Italy's Calamitous Campaign In WW2 | World War II in Colour | War Stories

[@jeremiahwilliams7031]

Wow, haven’t seen WWII in Colour in years. Used to play on the Military Channel daily.

[@frandsenphilip1]

It was on Netflix for a fairly long time - I've probably watched the series a dozen times. A shame Netflix took it away.

[@edwardmilano4610]

One of my favorite ww2 documentaries

[@IronSouledWarrior]

Netflix has a new one in color hd ww2 from the front lines

[@davidbritton3934]

Many a night watching these lol

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Extremely wonderful historical coverage video...thanks for sharing

[@giano427]

Starts out with Mussolini and his ambitions, then spends about 40 minutes talking about the Germans with sprinkles of Italian actions in between, lol.

[@jefferystutsman6419]

thats what your mom told me last night too, when her mouth wasnt full

[@biostalker4514]

History hits is bad with their pathetic clickbait titles

[@redfruit1968]

​@@jefferystutsman6419Shut up, Jeffrey.

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

You're right, Giano. It's called clickbait. It gets everyone! But this part of the war is rarely covered. I still found it interesting. People say Germany fought a 2 front war but it was actually a 3 front war - for them. But I too wanted to watch about Nero.

[@pmtspmts8441]

That’s because the Italians were useless what else is there to discuss?

[@RubberToeYT]

Great documentary, the coloured footage looks great

[@kingpriapatius5832]

Hello from GREECE.

[@HectorH-q6f]

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[@SmaruluSs]

🤡.

[@SmaruluSs]

💀💀..

[@jacksprat9172]

Hi from Scotland.

[@daviddesert3132]

Yiasou filimo...

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

In a very general overview, Mussolini's empire expansion collapsed due to the following: (1) Italy was not yet a fully industrialized country like Britain and Germany (2) the Italian people and the Italian military were not fully supportive of empire building.

[@simonf8902]

Correct. Horses still performed the bulk of haulage.

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

@@simonf8902that was true for all but the U.S. army even the Soviets relied on horses and Germany was as well. Few armies at the time had the vehicles and the logistics to support both the repair and fueling of entirely truck based forcesz

[@alerossi8564]

@@icecoldpolitics8890Italians at the time still have ww1 weapons…not much and bad. Soldiers are good it s only they lack weapons

[@alerossi8564]

@@icecoldpolitics8890in the Italian army they haven t also the horses , soldiers move on theyr foots

[@claudiobasile6113]

Short and accurate ! Very true ! I am Italian.

[@HectorH-q6f]

This my favorite channel 🤳👍🏼

[@JB-rt4mx]

WoW ...a Afrika Korp film that isn't Blurry, Dark and chopped to pieces. 🤓😉

[@AnastasioCostaMeno]

20:49 yeah nah. We’ll never get that on YT.

[@HoneyBundle]

You're 12

[@billolsen4360]

"El-Alamein" almost sounds like Spanish for "The German"

[@joaniejay22]

War Stories love your stories thank you for sharing

[@Baddy187]

A neutral Italy might have been a bigger boon to the Germans. They could act like The Netherlands acted in WW1, a great place to get goods from and stay connected to the worlds trade.

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

People say Germany fought a 2 front war but they actually fought a 3 front war.

[@SennaAugustus]

Unfortunately, this documentary is lacking a lot in information such as dates and names.

[@tomlxyz]

I wouldn't remember names and dates anyways

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

It’s mostly meant as an overview.

[@anonymousperson8487]

Atsa gooda video 👌

[@muro_35]

very good documentary. 🙂

[@cremino100]

Mussolini was not toppled by a popular uprising though everyone rejoyced but by his own underlings

[@AnastasioCostaMeno]

50:42 he wad captured by Italian partisan forces and s*ot.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

His underlungs were half of the country

[@lifuranph.d.9440]

Like Caesar Augustus...¿Et Tu, Brutus?

[@philippedefechereux8740]

Outstanding!

[@gostrum1]

Superb 👌

[@robdiesel2876]

Italy went to war over a desert. That shows in and of itself, the folly of Mussolini. The fact that he actually thought it was a good idea, to sacrifice troops and resources over a desert, shows that they would fail as an empire. Typically when countries go to war, they do it for resources or land, or riches. Libia at the time, had nothing. Egypt had much of the same.

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

It was to disrupt British colonies and reestablish the Roman Empire trust if the Brit’s are there colonizing the place there is definitely wealth and resources it’s way too complicated for your small mind 😅

[@MalevolentBite]

They would had complete control of the Mediterranean Sea, suez canel, red sea and Nile river plus do you know how many natural resources there are in Sudan plus the oil ? Then cheap labor. They would make bank from owning and controlling all those trade ports.

[@EddyMerckx-1964-Sallanches]

What did Qaddafi do to nato again???

[@satan899]

"Just a desert" So much ignorance in those 3 words

[@riccardomallardo7779]

Italy went to war over the Suez canal, it's a peninsula in the mediterrean, a sea with only two entrances and both controlled by britain, for Italy it was necessary to control those entrances

[@Mothman58]

Y’all forgot to mention they were called the Rats of Tobruk

[@bigk8210]

If you remember the Dennis Miller Millennium Special he mentioned Benito "Hey! Wait Up Guys!" Mussolini. 😁

[@jamiemcmullen3647]

Damn youtube an ad every 2 min?? spend more time skippin ads then watchin the videos 😡😡😡

[@dailystriver2727]

That cliff was getting levelled and annihilated differently. Taking that cliff and fortress down helped the allies break the gustav line.

[@geordischmidt]

Actually, no, it didn't. The bombing of the monastery, along with the town, created hundreds of tons of rubble that blocked Allied forces and gave cover to the German paratroopers (known as Green Helmets). It was the Gourmiers or North African mountain troops who led the French Expeditionary Force up the supposedly unclimable heights around Casino and into the German rear that led to the breaking of the line.

[@manricobianchini5276]

The Italian soldiers were as brave as any other combatant in WW2. They were let down by the goverment and the Italian industry. They weren't useless. That is a big misconception.

[@sandienochs6132]

You are right, they weren’t just useless, they were extremely, incredibly, useless.

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

@@sandienochs6132 not at all, look up theyre voctories. they beat the yanks at Kasserine pass.. The alpini held the stalingrad front open to the last man so a lot of axis troops could escape, the Decima mas frogmen at Malta, They sunk a few allied warships. Rommel praised the Bersaglieri, Stalin praised the Alpini.

[@bearnold15]

Shocked this hasn't been claimed

[@tomlxyz]

Why should it be?

[@AnkitSingh-xl6pt]

A bit of a minor correction: It was the heroic Australian 9th Division which fought a defensive battle at Tobruk to be nicknamed "The Desert Rats" and they were commanded by Major-General Leslie Morshed.

[@flowerpower8722]

I think there were a couple of take overs of Tobruk, Germany came back after the Australians left, to my understanding. There were also many other allies involved in North Africa, and a lot of to-ing and fro-ing on both sides - logistics and all that.

[@zillsburyy1]

thumbs down for censor stories

[@Episode_13]

Doesn't matter, listen and enjoy

[@RyanWilson-qy7kb]

@@Episode_13 It does matter. My countrymen fought and died and should be respected. It doesn't matter to you, but it matters to me, to my father, to my grandfather, and their fathers, and to all other military men of the United Kingdom and her allies. I don't care about the lick of paint you want to portray it under in the current year political landscape, I want to see an uncensored historical documentary that has been shown in the past uncensored, as it was shown when it was released. It's essentially revising history. If it didn't matter then the documentary would not have included them at all, and something tells me you didn't make this documentary and have no station to speak on its behalf.

[@Episode_13]

@@RyanWilson-qy7kb what are you talking about, my late Nonno was Sicilian, came to the UK after the 2nd world war. Please remember this is KZbin it will always be censored you plum! Wake up!

[@Episode_13]

@@RyanWilson-qy7kb it's on youtube buddy, chill please, just enjoy it as an educational piece, youtube is automatically censored Ryan. Common sense.

[@RyanWilson-qy7kb]

@@Episode_13 true lol you're right man

[@altoncrane9714]

youtube trying to re-write history, shame on youtube. blurring the images like that is criminally disrespectful, to say the every least.

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

Italy suffered a lot in WW2 with nothing to show for it but humiliation 😅

[@mdiciaccio87]

Hilarious......

[@SpockvsMcCoy]

The average Italian then was not interested in empire building. On the contrary, the average German then had racial/ethnic animosity and deep resentment especially towards Britain and France after WWI.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

​@SpockvsMcCoy so did italians due to mutilated victory

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

why did 14 people choose to vote this up? it looks like it was written by a child

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

They got a few goood hits in againt the Americans too. At least they stood up to the bully of the times. UK

[@PMMagro]

The UK had the advantage except in Greece, naval domination decides who get supplies and/or reinfocements overseas. Taking Malta instead of Crete could have been a game changer. Still the UK fleet did show it was brave and sharper than the enemies more than once so...

[@flybobbie1449]

Mussolini had ambitions, his troops didn't.

[@mdiciaccio87]

His troops were based

[@cucca96]

His troops were bad commanded and bad equipped most of the times, i'm italian and studied our ww2 for quite a time. We had good soldiers but bad commanders in field and bad politicians calling the shots

[@PrincessZelda_is_My_Side_Chick]

Is it just me, or does Mussolini not look EXACTLY Like Marlon Brando when he played Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now?" The resemblance is uncanny....

[@2msvalkyrie529]

" the Horror.....the Horror.. "

[@dzonnyblue3065]

Who needs Enemies when you have Italians are Allies !

[@terrybarton8388]

This was more like a general overview of the North Africa campaign!

[@lucaorlandi289]

LET'S BE OBJECTIVE!! The main military powers that fought for years in WW2 were six :On one side Germany ,Italy and Japan .On the other side USA ,Russia,UK .That's it .Italy fought on two continents and four seas with 3.400.000 men (considering army ,navy ,aviation ,auxiliaries).Let's see some points: 1)First of all this video doesn't explain that before the ww2 Italy had two war campaignes in Ethiopia(1935-1936) and Spain civil war(1936-1939) and used a lot of resources to fight and finish those campaignes, for this reason wasn't ready in 1940. 2) REGIA MARINA:The Italian fleet was the fourth in the world in 1940, it had the same tonnage of navy like France .The Littorio Class was the backbone of the navy with the 3 huge battleships: Littorio ,Vittorio Veneto and Roma(in 1940 they were considered the most powerful battleships in the world like artillery.). The Regia Marina had very great successes with submarines ,they fought in fourth different seas:Mediterranean Sea, in the Red Sea,in the Persian Gulf and in the Atlantic Ocean. ,with 1750 missions and the sinking of 132 merchant ships and 18 military ships,Italy lost 128 submarines of the totaly 172.The X Mas ,was a special unit of assault and raid of the Regia Marina ,with great success of sinking to the Royal Navy. 3)REGIA AERONAUTICA:The Italian Air Force had in 1940: 1300 medium bomber ,1160 fighter aircaftt, 500 recoinassence aircraft .It had very good warfighters like Macchi 202 and Macchi 205,Fiat G 55 and the Reggiane RE 2005 (maybe the most beautiful airplane of the WW2) .Italy built from (1940 to 1943) 11508 airplanes(always less in comparison with the othern nations). Only the fourth squadron destroyed 585 airplanes plus 215 probably .The SM 79 was an amazing medium bomber ,very effcient as torpedo bomber ,infact sinked a lot of military ships (Fearless ,Bedouin ,Nestor ,Foresight,Pozarica ecc).The sum of the official ranking of the(only) flying aces is of 1225 shooting down aircrafts.(The highest is Franco Lucchini with 26). 4)REGIO ESERCITO AND SPECIAL FORCES The Italian Army fought in Russia,Yugoslavia,Greece,North Africa ,and South -East Africa with 1.800000 soldiers in 75 divisions(not all well-equipped). Very good were the machine guns Breda 30 and 36, the mortar 81mm, Beretta 38 submachine .Italy built very good armoured cars like the autoblinda 40 and 41 and the SPA Viberti AS 42 ,and only the the tank 105/25 m43.The Special forces like Folgore ,Bersaglieri ,Alpini ,The X Mas ecc were very combative .The Folgore fought in North Africa for 3 years stopping the best English troops. 5)VICTORIES AND HEROIC BATTLE: - El Alamein in the 1942 -The last charge of Izbusenskij of the cavalry Savoy in Croazia in the 1942 - The sinking of the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant by the X Mas in the 1941 -Pantelleria air-naval battle with the sinking of the Burdwan ,Chan and Kentucky and the damage of many others in the 1942 -The battle of August 1942 with the sinking of Manchester ,Cairo and the damage of Nigeria ,Kenya ,Brisbane ecc -The sinking of York and Pericles in the Sudan Bay by the X Mas 1941 - Italian conquest of British Somalia - 1940 -Italian conquest of Cassala,Gallabat and Kurmuk (British-Egypt Sudan)1940; So there are a lot of victories of Italy in ww2(i have wrote only some) ,but Italy lost the war and the winners write the history for this reason there are a lot of fake videos like this .For sure Italy wasn't so bad, but don't worry you can read books(as "Courage Alone" of Chris Dunning) and check on internet .And don't forget ITALY was the first nation to use airplanes in combat in Libia in 1911 and to built the first jet plane Campini Caproni without propeller. Also did a lot of world air records in the 30s .Bye

[@thomasparson6484]

China was in ww2 vs Japan

[@lucaorlandi289]

@@thomasparson6484 you can put also France ,Australia ,new Zelanda ecc if you want .But the main military Powers in Allies were Usa Russia uk

[@thomasparson6484]

I have a busy life so this my last reply. I have a degree in History. I am not a communist. World War 2 is one of my specialties. China a major power during World War 2 fought more Japanese servicemen than the USA The USA and Great Britain were successful in Europe and the Pacific because in Europe the USSR killed more Germans and lost more people than the US and Great Britain Similar to China above.

[@lucaorlandi289]

@@thomasparson6484 me too ,I am busy so this Is my last comment.I have to Remember you in Potsdam the winners were Russia,usa and uk

[@WilliamWalls-iz2rv]

Starting at 40:05 -- watch the Germans smiling as they march into captivity. They just realized they are going to survive this war.

[@brianmaitai7685]

Read "TIMELINE WW2 "...The Germans complained about fighting for a few yards of desert "Even the poorest Arab didn't want".

[@JohnTashjian-f4n]

I've seen the film clip of Mussolini's corpse, and that of his mistress, Clara Petaci. Why blur them now?

[@elastronata]

It has now been revealed to me that all of this was going on while the Axis was advancing toward Stalingrad. Imagine if Italy had just held serve...

[@Milovan-c9x]

The Maltese People were forced to be bombed and die because of British Imperialism, and no trinkets offered as rewards will ever be worthy of the Maltese lives lost.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

Lots of maltesi sided with italy as well, carmelo borg pisani most notably

[@lyndoncmp5751]

If Italy didn't declare war on Britain in the summer of 1940 there wouldn't have been any fighting over Malta.

[@micheleraba4878]

The main reason of the Italian downfall was that fascist regime was tolerated, not supported. And the second reason was that at any level and rank all those in charge use their authority to steal as much as possible.

[@lazyprodigy2774]

The music while people talk ruins it foe me. It's too overpowering.

[@AnastasioCostaMeno]

42:47 Say HIS name! ALAN TURING!! ALAN TURING! ALAN MATHISON TURING!!!!

[@craigime]

Calm down

[@ElGrandoCaymano]

Wasn't Rommel in Germany during the second battle of El Alamein?

[@99somerville]

No. He was in North Africa and in command of the Afrika Corps.

[@petec3185]

Italians taking Ls on two different continents is crazy

[@seanlander9321]

The Australian victory at Bardia was an incredible feat. 16000 Australians armed only with rifles, grenades and two machine guns captured a heavily fortified garrison, attacking over open ground through kilometres thick barbed wire, mines and trenches to kill thousands of Italian troops, take 36000 prisoners, and take hundreds of tanks, guns and vehicles for the loss of 132 troops. The British claim it as their victory but they barely made a guest appearance, had nothing to do with the planning, finance or command and at various times during the three day battle, refused to fight. Their losses consisted of repeated mechanical breakdowns of 90% of their tanks which had been babied into position by Australian infantry using wire cutters and filling in tank traps by hand. It’s ludicrous to claim that Britain made a contribution and the American press rightly condemned them for claiming a whopping great lie despite Churchill’s protestations otherwise.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

True. Conversely however, Singapore is referred to as a 'British' defeat and the biggest surrender of 'British' troops in history..... yet most of them were from the Commonwealth and weren't 'British' troops. It works both ways.

[@Marcelo-vs9qw]

The problem with Italy in the Second World War was that Mussolini did not invest in modernizing his army, contrary to what Germany did, the Italian industry was poor at the time, if he had modernized his army perhaps the story would have been different... In the Second World War, Italy used weapons from the First War.

[@brianmaitai7685]

Poland...the reason Germany started the war. Italy- the reason the Germans lost the war.

[@Leonard-td5rn]

Graziani would not even look at recon evidence that British were advancing. He ordered his troops to dig in and they were sitting ducks. They had little choice but surrender

[@marcdavis4509]

Japanese plane at 9:30 for some reason

[@whicker59]

Mussolini's army had been used to battling easy targets like Ethiopia. He nor his generals thought Africa would b a piece of cake.

[@atankie71]

Operation mincemeat also mentioned Greece was the target.

[@geralddrake3002]

for a show supposedly about Italy in WW2 it sure is lacking in information about the Italians, basically nothing about the Italian Armor that was always with the Germans. The massive army that they sent into Russia, nor anything about the Italian surrender and switching sides and the formation of a new army that fought along with the allies, along with the reformation of the Italian axis army that also fought with the Germans.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

There was no side switching, Italy surrendered to the allies but didn't side with them, then germany invaded italy and italy defended herself

[@geralddrake3002]

@@riccardomallardo7779 then what do you call the Italian Co-belligerent Army? There also is the army of the Italian Social Republic on the Germans side. You have Italian's on both sides of the conflict so somebody switched sides.

[@riccardomallardo7779]

@@geralddrake3002 the italian cobelligerent army was fighting against germany because germany invaded italy, that's not side switching, if germany wouldn't have invaded italy there would've never been a cobelligerent army

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

I only had to read the description to know it was another propaganda load o'crap about Italy's role so didn't even watch. I would have bet a million it's British, and listened for 10 seconds and yep, sure enough.

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

Italy had a civil war, they didnt just change sides

[@patrickrichards2577]

✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✨😳✨😱✨🤯✨.

[@patrickrichards2577]

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[@Smudgeroon74]

1 man that was the real threat to the peace ans security of Europe and that was Richard Coudenhove Kalergi...

[@jojokeavy2835]

Violent Gibson, almost ended his career in 1926.

[@lilianthuo8446]

The comment section is killing me 😂😂😂

[@biostalker4514]

STOP CENSORING HISTORY FFS!!!

[@jeffreywaugh926]

WWII in Color

[@safatkarim630]

The Germanic "Barbarians" dividing Italy again! 45:56

[@ChrisCrossClash]

It was your own fault. Don’t start a war you can’t win in future 😂

[@benjaminjohnson5414]

This episode almost feels like click bait with it's name. Like it sounds like it would be about Italy's bad campaign, and it is at the start sure, but most of it is about Britain and the Nazi's battles in Africa and the Malta. Like Italy was there a bit at the start and then at the end but the biggest meat of this was not about Italy even if Italy is what lead to this campaign in the first place.

[@brianmaitai7685]

The 3 GLADIATOR Fighters: The famous FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY!

[@AnastasioCostaMeno]

Everyone makes fun of the French actions during WWII but the Italians … dude they really should be the ones that should be shamed.

[@thecommentaryking]

Italy is already joked about, and quite too much

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

Neither should really be shamed.

[@robertdelacruz2951]

This is a very fine documentary, but for the sake of presenting the documentary, it lacks the granular details of the events its covered.

[@engineer0111]

My German Grandfather was from the beginning till the end in Africa and from what did he die in 1953? Brain damage from the extreme exposure to the sun.

[@RyanWilson-qy7kb]

Why is this censored? Is there anywhere I can watch this as the documentary makers intended, uncensored? Shame on KZbin for trying to revise history.

[@tomlxyz]

What is getting censored?

[@hull5768]

too much pasta

[@davidmoser3535]

The narration sounds like the incomprobale Robert Powell

[@Sugarmountaincondo]

👎 Sorry this video just doesn't cut the cake as it wasn't about Italy at war at all. The story also skips over some very other strategic events like the Coup in Yugoslavia or the Italian 8th Army in Russia or the Italian Navy's contribution to the U-Boat War in the Atlantic Ocean just to name a few. Also, the Tile was spelled wrong, it should have been Campaign's and not Campaign.

[@triumphbobberbiker]

Looks very much like a British Pathé propaganda movie from WW2, only in colour

[@safatkarim630]

Why? Does it only show one side of the story?

[@triumphbobberbiker]

@@safatkarim630 absolutely. It only focuses on Italy's failures but there were British failures too, and (strange as this may sound) a few Italian major successes. For instance, between June 1940 and early 1943 Italian ships successfully carried across the strait of Sicily some 90% of the supplies/personnel for the Axis forces in N-Africa. The fact that the Royal Navy did not manage to disrupt Italian naval lanes to and from Lybia (except for a few periods) was a serious setback. It was not 'spectacular' like the Italian defeat at Matapan, but it was a major failure. And, I could go on. You won't find any mention of this on the YT videos such as this one. PS. I am not stating that Italy's overall performance was good, far from me. I am saying that WW2 has ended 60 years ago. A more balanced approach would be appropriate, I think.

[@ChrisCrossClash]

@@triumphbobberbikerWhy would it be a major failure it was in Italys back garden while Britain was hundred of miles away?

[@grandfaultimperceptor]

I think the Italians wanted Italy to be a great nation again, but not a grasping, warmongering empire and I think that shows in their meh fighting performance.

[@brianmaitai7685]

The German paras "Fallschmjager" fought on Mount Cassinno and moved deep into the cellars to escape aerial bombing by B-26's. Even the Brits were impressed because they popped in and out of the cellars to fight on.

[@Episode_13]

Beaten off eh ;)

[@AnkitSingh-xl6pt]

SOVIET UNION: We suffered human casualties. BRITAIN/FRANCE: We suffered our colonial possessions. . . . . . ITALY: We suffered epic HUMILIATION !!!!!!

[@Arthur-tx8fd]

The Italians were very useful as POW s. The brits turned most of them into cooks..

[@joey8062]

Stereotype

[@lilianthuo8446]

😂😂😂😂

[@TimS-i4v]

Hmmm this started out about the Italians then went to a drawn out documentary about Rommel fight the British… talk about getting off the point of your video

[@tomlxyz]

Rommel got there to help out the Italians so it's quite relevant to Italian failure

[@Leonard-td5rn]

At Adwa the Italians were outnumbered ten to one

[@underthemoon-p7q]

The relationship issues channel 🎉

[@dwaynebronson870]

Italians lost because they didn't have pith helmets

[@nicokleinbeck6971]

Totally misleading title, this is purely the African campaign, nothing to do with the fall of Rome

[@EddyMerckx-1964-Sallanches]

With what I know today we should have supported the Germans then.

[@JohnRoberts-wk6rf]

Ugh. Interrupted by a Biden donation pitch.

[@kostasvrionis781]

28/10 /40 εισβολή στην Ελλάδα. Κορόιδο Μουσολίνι

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

Greece after ww2. Mock Greece.

[@rockyracoon3233]

Mussolini should have made like Franco and stayed neutral.

[@markwolfshohl6562]

Rocky!

[@samlazar1053]

Italians were terible.So were the Romanians. In Russia,..everytime the Russians would attack or counter attack the Italins would completely fall apart as fighting force,Almost instantly. This are German testimonies.

[@mattturner7500]

Why did they suck

[@KR0TE7]

Supplies mostly terrible tanks guns that didn't work italian soldiers were very good tho like the French just lacked weapons

[@ReyAce00]

A grossly outdated military, combined with a poor officer class, topped off by a lack of supplies and materiel to wage the war Mussolini wanted to fight.

[@johnbarlow1428]

Because they were even worse than the French!

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

@@johnbarlow1428 they werent as bad as the propaganda says.

[@oldskool731]

dont mess with the royal navy el duce

[@riccardomallardo7779]

The italian navy was almost on par with it, only the army sucked, it only took 6 frogmen to cripple the british navy for months

[@danis-nd1ik]

mussolini pendu par les pieds à milan

[@Bancus1993]

This European countries were really evil. Z TBH

[@pauljoneses8188]

Biplanes?🤣😂🤣

[@RobertKoberinski-yc3ps]

Italy bought glass bottom boats so they could see their Air Force……

[@riccardomallardo7779]

They then lent them to the brits so that they can see their ships in alexandria

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

@@riccardomallardo7779 and Malta

[@pauljoneses8188]

Churchill irritates me🤣😂

[@pmtspmts8441]

How in the world Italians ever conquered anyone just tells me how awful their opposition.. French are even better than italians

[@lucaorlandi289]

😂😂😂

[@seanmatto2258]

Italy shouldn’t have gotten rid of Mussolini.

[@wally9935]

Lol

[@craigime]

Why?

[@brianmaitai7685]

Thank you Italy for shortening the war with your balless performance. Lost to Ethiopia at Adawa in 1896, lost in North Africa.......Well, at least you guys make good ice-cream.

[@brianmaitai7685]

Did Mussolini speak German?

[@markwolfshohl6562]

4 WWI planes held of the Italian Air Force? This is why Italian jokes exist😎

[@Ivartabrizi999]

It almost looks like Italian conscripts were first taught how to stylishly throw down their weapons and throw up their hands !!!

[@markwolfshohl6562]

“ Italian resistance “ … funny

[@markwolfshohl6562]

Even the Greeks!!! Damn😂

[@markwolfshohl6562]

From the Roman Empire to the Italian States to WWI failure to Mussolini… uuughhh At least y’all gave us pizza, pasta, the mafia, o yes Columbus, wife beater undershirts, and….. ???

[@riccardomallardo7779]

All of western civilization, you're welcome

[@JohnSmith-rw8uh]

add up all the American military failures since ww2