World War II was the most tragic war in human history, a total of 61 countries and regions, nearly 2 billion people involved in this struggle, resulting in nearly 90 million military and civilian sacrifices and 5 trillion US dollars in losses, China, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and other allies spent a huge price, which difficulty overcame the fascist regime led by Germany, Italy and Japan.
In this tragic historical event, there is also gray humor, and the Italian army has given the Allied army a "good lesson", which uniquely demonstrates what is called the role of pig teammate.
As the country with the lowest sense of existence among the three Axis powers, although Mussolini's Italy formed the earliest fascist regime to come to power, and dreamed of restoring the Roman Empire, it inadvertently became the funniest country of World War II, Italy's performance on the battlefield has always been "obvious to all", in 1935, hundreds of thousands of Italian troops in cooperation with aircraft artillery and tanks, brazenly invaded Ethiopia in northeast Africa, only to be beaten by the Egyptian army with rudimentary guns and less than ten rounds of ammunition per capita, after a year. This was followed in 1936 at the cost of 10,000 killed and 44,000 wounded to occupy the Ethiopian capital, Siababa.
In 1940, the German army hoped that Italy could cooperate with its own attack on France, but Mussolini played a little careful with Hitler, claiming that he was "not prepared for war" and needed time to wait, as a result, the German army soon hit the vicinity of Paris, Mussolini was overjoyed, immediately let the Italian army attack, planning to take advantage of the opportunity to make a big profit, but was defeated by the French army in the south of France, and france's combat effectiveness in World War II did not dare to compliment, did not expect that Italy was worse than him, Even the armored forces in the southern provinces of France had burst into Italy, and it was unknown where the French would have advanced had it not been for the French government in Paris announcing their surrender.
You see how happy this Italian soldier is smiling
Why is Italy's fighting ability so bad? This is also because of their war-weariness, Italy is a capitalist rich country, there is food and drink, artistic atmosphere, as a result, Mussolini came to power, but to launch military operations, the Italians are naturally unhappy, but under the pressure of Mussolini, had to stay away from home cheese and red wine.
Another incident during World War II was a good reflection of this problem, in the Battle of El Alamein in the North African theater, the Italian army surrendered to the Allies in a large-scale formation, which is extremely rare in human history, when British Prime Minister Churchill called to ask the British commander of North Africa, Okinlake, Churchill asked about Italy and how many soldiers they had captured.
Unexpectedly, Oginlake actually replied, too much, there are nearly 5 acres of troops surrendered, we are undermanned, can not manage, but the Italians because no one cares, they took the initiative to ask us for materials, they set up a prisoner of war camp to lock themselves up. This also made Churchill cry and laugh, and elsewhere, Italy has repeatedly played the same operation.
Some people look at the Italian story as a joke, but the editor believes that the Italians are very clever precisely because they understand that this is an unjust war, "life is short, and it is timely to be happy." This is the passive face of the fascist command. Their casualties and losses were much smaller than those of the German and Japanese troops who were working hard to serve the Emperor's Fuehrer.