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VERY LITTLE-ITALY WITHOUT CONFERRING WITH HITLER, INVADED ALBANIA AND GREECE IN EARLY 1941 AND QUICKLY GOT BOGGED DOWN IN BOTH COUNTRIES AND EVEN HAD TO RETREAT WHICH WAS A MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT FOR MUSSOLINI! THAT CAUSED HITLER TO POSTPONE HIS INVASION PLANS FOR THE Soviet Union BY A CRITICAL 6 WEEKS! ITALY WAS ALWAYS A WEAK AND IMPOTENT ALLY FOR Germany ESPECIALLY IN NORTH AFRICA WHERE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ITALIANS SURRENDERED TO THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS AND ON THE EASTERN FRONT. THE GERMANS ALWAYS HAD TO COME TO THE ITALIANS RESCUE EXCEPT Ethiopia WHERE MUSSOLINI HAD INVADED BACK IN 1936 AND HELD ONTO UNTIL 1940 WHEN THE BRITISH TOOK IT OVER.

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