“Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.”

— Erwin Rommel

On Italians, sometimes cited to The Rommel Papers (1953) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, but without specific chapter or page citations; it seems to summarize an attitude indicated by Rommel in Ch. 11 of that work, but no published occurrence of this has actually been located.
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German field marshal of World War II 1891–1944

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