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The Last Days of Peace from within the Axis: Italian Efforts to Avoid the German Aggression Against Poland
The Last Days of Peace from within the Axis: Italian Efforts to Avoid the German Aggression Against Poland

Author(s): Ciro Paoletti
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Military history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej
Keywords: Poland;Germany;Italy;World War II;Hitler;Ribbentrop;Mussolini;Ciano;Steel Pact

Summary/Abstract: The author presents available archival and published Italian sources devoted to the last weeks of peace between March/April and September 1939. The materials provide clear evidence that in late spring and summer 1939, an arrangement or agreement betweenPoland and Germany was impossible. The main reason was Hitler’s determined political and economic will to attack and destroy Poland.

  • Issue Year: 34/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-150
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English