Ten Minute History - Mussolini and Fascist Italy (Short Documentary)

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Recommended reading:

A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan. I cannot recommend this book enough. Almost certainly the best single-volume book that covers Italy's history. Great balance between readability and detail.

Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship by R.J.B. Bosworth. A very detailed and meticulous book which covers anything you'd need to know about Fascist Italy. Very good book for understanding what life was like for normal people and how the war affected everything.

Invade Greece now, for the Italy! Show no mercy, slaughter them like sheep!

[TravisBroski]

Fun Fact: Mussolini was also a grade school teacher. So imagine growing up and seeing the same man that taught you when you were a kid suddenly rule over the country with an iron fist.

[Whitemoon]

1:23 "worst allies ever" so weird when Italy holds it

[limon]

Fun fact.
Since wheat is hard to grow in Italy, it depended a lot on grain imports from other nations. Mussolini planned to change that by increasing production and consumption of Rice, which was easier to grow, and Brown Bread, which required less grain.
Another proponent of Italian Rice was Filippo Marinetti, founder of the futurist movement, who claimed Pasta made Italian men lazy, and wanted to replace it with new and purely italian dishes.

[bbenjoe]

The last king of Italy, Umberto II reigned for only 33 days. He is sometimes lebelled as the 'May King' because of this.

[romulusnuma]

Hey kids do you want some Land and Votes?

[helium]

Germany: Losing the war help!
Italy: Don’t worry Germany I got this!


-Italy has changed teams

[Orthane]

Britain and France criticizing Italy for building a Colonial Empire is the most hypocritical thing to ever exist lol.

[davefoxxo]

These minecraft updates keep getting better and better

[scratchy]

Wait, the French and British didn't keep their promise ? I'm shocked !

[MTTT]

Interestingly to note here, is that during the vote for whether to keep the monarchy or go republic, the split was pretty even North - South, with the North voting overwhelmingly for the republic, while the South wanted to keep the king. And when a few decades later the disposed royal family wanted to sue the Italian republic for injust treatment (seizing their money and lands), the republic answered by saying 'Then we sue your family for letting fascism happen', to which they promptly pulled back.

[richardgonzalez]

my favorite parts of these videos is the "soon sign" its just so perfect and the look the character has holding the sign is just as perfect

[PASTRAMIKick]

This video is as long as the time the Italians held north africa.

[FourOf]

7:50 "King Zog of Albania" is the fakest-sounding name I know of a real leader having

[danielartok]

It's amazing how the allies litterally created their future enemies step by step.

Well, actually Mussolini “managed” to escape with a bit of a help from German special forces, not by himself as you may expect from the video, which is, nevertheless, fantastic.

[SmilingIbis]

You omitted the embarrassing fact that when Mussolini attacked France, after France had surrendered to Germany, his troops were largely repelled and got only minor territorial concessions from a country that really didn't exist any more.

[dominykassimonis]

i love how mussolini's supporters were going to take the goverment, mussolini be like:

[scottlawson]

What I love about your vids is that when one is 10 minutes long, you know its not for ad revenue, its because that is how long the actual content is. No filler and well explained, easily my favourite YT channel atm 👍

[ApolloV]

My great great grandpa got out of there just in time. He had served in the Italian army, but booked it to America around the turn of the 20th century.

[hocolate]

"Giving Mussolini a legitimate position in government would make him act in a more respectable manner" 2:58

Oh yeah, because the last time the Italians tried that one it went so well