HITLER ECSTATIC AFTER MUSSOLINI’S RESCUE
Fuehrer HQ, Rastenburg, Germany · September 12, 1943 On September 11, 1943, imprisoned in the Hotel Campo Imperatore high in the Apennine Mountains, deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini learned of the terms of the “long armistice” the Allies had presented to Marshal Pietro Badoglio’s new Italian government. (A “short armistice” had been signed in Sicily…