“It's best that you know this immediately: I have never been a Fascist, but always a soldier who obeyed orders.”

—  Rodolfo Graziani

To SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann. Quoted in "Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce" - Page 27 - by Ray Moseley - History - 2004

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