The Last Days of Peace from within the Axis: Italian Efforts to Avoid the German Aggression Against Poland

Ciro Paoletti

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2019)

ISSN:

1427-7476

Section: Studia

The Last Days of Peace from within the Axis: Italian Efforts to Avoid the German Aggression Against Poland

Ciro Paoletti

Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca

Remembrance and Justice, Vol. 34 No. 2 (2019), pages: 129-150

Publication date: 2019-12-30

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Abstract

The author presents available archival and published Italian sources devoted to the last weeks of peace between March/April and September 1939. The materials provide clear evidence that in late spring and summer 1939, an arrangement or agreement betweenPoland and Germany was impossible. The main reason was Hitler’s determined political and economic will to attack and destroy Poland.

Keywords

Polska • Niemcy • Włochy • II wojna światowa • Hitler • Ribbentrop Mussolini • Ciano • pakt stalowy Poland, Germany • Italy • World War II • Hitler • Ribbentrop • Mussolini • Ciano • Steel Pact

References

Ciano G., L’Europa verso la catastrofe – La storia d’Europa dal 1936 al 1942 in 184 colloqui di Mussolini, Hitler, Chamberlain, Sumner Welles, Rustu, Aras, Stojadinovic, Goring, Zog, François-Poncet ecc. verbalizzati da Galeazzo Ciano, con 40 documenti diplomatici inediti, Verona 1948.

Ciano G., Diario 1937–1943, ed. R. De Felice, Milano 1990.

Hitler A., Mein Kampf (La mia battaglia), Varese 1991.

Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Documenti Diplomatici Italiani, Documenti Diplomatici Italiani, Ottava Serie 1935–1939, vol. XII: 21 maggio – 12 agosto 1939, Roma 1952.

Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Documenti Diplomatici Italiani, Ottava Serie 1935–1939, vol. XIII: 12 agosto – 1 settembre 1939, Roma 1953.

Szembek J., Journal, Paris 1952.

Pelliccia A., Il maresciallo dell’aria Italo Balbo, Roma 1998.

Citation rules

Paoletti, C. (2019). The Last Days of Peace from within the Axis: Italian Efforts to Avoid the German Aggression Against Poland. Remembrance and Justice, 34(2), 129–150. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.ipn.gov.pl/index.php/pis/article/view/4

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Vol. 34 No. 2 (2019)

ISSN:

1427-7476

Data publikacji:
2019-12-30

Dział: Studia