It can be said that they went almost without losses.
Inductee on
Switching sides mid-war saved them, like it helped Romania regain Transylvania (except that we lost some Soviet border regions permanently).
xxX_LeTalSniPeR_Xxx on
Luckily for us, we are not so obedient and disciplined as the Germans are. Maybe this makes our country less organized and efficient, but during WW2, for us it only took the Americans and British to land in Sicily for losing faith in Fascism and Mussolini. In Germany, the story was really different.
Diantene on
Why is the Dodecanese included but not the Libyan coast? At the time, coastal Libya had already been incorporated into Italy and was treated more or less like regular provinces.
hyakumanben on
Italy got off easy from being a complete and total failure in WWII (up until they switched sides and hanged Mussolini, of course).
Dense-Physics-9956 on
Yeah ok but this map seems to forget those small territories called Lybia and the whole Horn of Africa (albeit Somaliland remained italian until 1965)
greekscientist on
They also lost Palagruža a remote island that now belongs to Croatia.
mordax777 on
How can you call it loss? They gave it back!
Ydellago on
Naples is marked on the wrong location.Â
THE_ATOMIX_ on
The greatest win for Italy was keeping Trieste, by far the most valuable port in the Adriatic sea. It’s really surprising if you consider that the whole surrounding region was given to Yugoslavia.
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It can be said that they went almost without losses.
Switching sides mid-war saved them, like it helped Romania regain Transylvania (except that we lost some Soviet border regions permanently).
Luckily for us, we are not so obedient and disciplined as the Germans are. Maybe this makes our country less organized and efficient, but during WW2, for us it only took the Americans and British to land in Sicily for losing faith in Fascism and Mussolini. In Germany, the story was really different.
Why is the Dodecanese included but not the Libyan coast? At the time, coastal Libya had already been incorporated into Italy and was treated more or less like regular provinces.
Italy got off easy from being a complete and total failure in WWII (up until they switched sides and hanged Mussolini, of course).
Yeah ok but this map seems to forget those small territories called Lybia and the whole Horn of Africa (albeit Somaliland remained italian until 1965)
They also lost Palagruža a remote island that now belongs to Croatia.
How can you call it loss? They gave it back!
Naples is marked on the wrong location.Â
The greatest win for Italy was keeping Trieste, by far the most valuable port in the Adriatic sea. It’s really surprising if you consider that the whole surrounding region was given to Yugoslavia.
El Sud Tirol deberÃa haber vuelto a Austria
A few weeks ago I went to Vallée Étroite, a tiny valley between Bardonecchia and Névache in the French Alps that was part of the handover. Although it is technically french territory, most of the road signs are of the Italian type, and all phones have are connected to the Italian network (with a +39 prefix to boot). We read that all private land there is also owned by Italians.
You meant “gave back what they took”.