What was the relation between Hitler and Mussolini?

Question

Why was the "Fuhrer" so fascinated by italian "Duce"?

Answer 1

Mussolini was the first Fascist to form a fascist government in Europe. Hitler was younger than M and found inspiration in his intelligence (M was fluent in 4 languages), cunning, and bravado (M boasted that he fought many duels). M also had a very good propaganda machine and censored the press. The whole world got a distorted vision of how powerful M was and how effective he was as Duce. In reality the Fascists were so corrupt that almost everything M undertook failed.
For his part M was at first amused by Hitler. He found the Nazi propaganda about the Germans being the master race to be totally ludicrous, as did most Italians. After all, Rome was founded about 753 b.c.e. (before the common era), and Germany's only towns up until about 800 c.e. were Roman towns. like Trier and Cologne. The German barbarians who finally broke down the western Roman empire were awed by the roads, aqueducts, bridges, fountains, public baths, villas, and Roman technology. The Romans knew how to make plywood, concrete and glass, skills that Europeans re-learned very slowly.
Hitler's anti-semitism was also not to M's taste. Prominent Italian Jews supported M and he appreciated their support. Under constant pressure from the Nazis the Fascist press issued constant anti-semitic literature, but anti-semitic persecution was very lightweight compared to what was going on in Germany. In fact Italian fascism was far less murderous and fanatic than German fascism.
In the end Hitler saw M for what he was, and kidnapped him to keep him as the head of a puppet Italian government.

Answer 2

Mussolini And Hitler

Answer 3

Hitler And Mussolini

Answer 4

Early on, maybe Hitler admired Mussolini, but as the war dragged on, Hitler got fed up with the swaggering, inept Mussolini. On several occasions Germany had to send in troops to bail out the Italian army or finish the job they started. To Hitler, Mussolini wasn't anything more than a secure southern border and warm water seaports.

Answer 5

He wasn't fascinated by Il Duce.
Hitler was disgusted with Mussolini, and only used him as an "ally", to conquer and occupy Italy.
Mussolini actually believed that Hitler would win the war and he wanted to be part of the new order, so he sided with Hitler. He betrayed the Italian people. That's why he ended the way he did, and Italy later joined with the Allies.

Answer 6

They differed in that Mussolini's primary concern was the State (Italy) and Hilter's primary concern was himself. This evidenced by the fact that towards the end of the war he sped up the extermination process and used vital manpower and supplies to accomplish this. He ultimately was more concerned about that than he was with rescuing Germany. Hitler was a fan of Mussolini but he put his own spin on Fascism. Mussolini was fired by his party in Italy and no one in Germany would have dared to try that with Hitler.

They were similar in the way that they both wanted to take over a certain country and eventually take over the world. They are also similar in the way that they both lost and they both died in the end of all their chaos.

Answer 7

mussolini was hitler's role model for fascist dictatorship.Mussolini rose to power before Hitler so hitler saw that it was possible for someone with ideas similar to his own to rise to power in a powerful nation.
But once in power Hitler quickly became more powerful than mussolini so the roles reversed and Hitler later saved mussolini's skin.In the end the italian people killed mussolini anyway.

Answer 8

His active intervention in 1936–1939 on the side of Franco in the Spanish Civil War ended any possibility of reconciliation with France and Britain. As a result, his relationship with Adolf Hitler became closer, and he chose to accept the German annexation of Austria in 1938 and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1939. At the Munich Conference in September 1938, he posed as a moderate working for European peace, helping Nazi Germany seize control of the Sudetenland. His "axis" with Germany was confirmed when he made the "Pact of Steel" with Hitler in May 1939, as the previous "Rome-Berlin Axis" of 1936 had been unofficial. Members of TIGR, a Slovene anti-fascist group, plotted to kill Mussolini in Kobarid in 1938, but their attempt was unsuccessful.

Answer 9

Il Duce patterned himself after Julius Caesar and Hitler had a soft spot in his heart for Caesar salad.

Answer 10

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