To What Extent Was Italy Involved In The Operation

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History Internal Assessment Title: To what extent was Italy involved in the Operation Barbarossa? Plan of the Investigation(259) In this essay I will investigate to what extent Italy was involved in the Operation Barbarossa planned by Hitler during ww2, as the inability to communicate and join forces between Mussolini and Hitler led, to a large extent, to the failure of Hitler’s attempt of defeating Stalin. Therefore this essay aims to display the real effectiveness of Italy in the assault against the U.S.S.R. by highlighting the fundamental battles carried out by the Italian Army on the way to Stalingrad, the cooperation with Germans and Romanians in order to defeat the Russians, the reputation that Italy had in foreign countries such as Germany, Japan or U.S.A. and the strange reluctance of Hitler to rely on Mussolini’s state as an allied nations. This study will include a variety of diverse sources ; such as the novel ‘Operation Barbarossa-the case against Moscow’ written by Gary Komar, the historical book’ Barbarossa: the Axis and the Allies’ written by John Erickson, which were both published in Britain therefore exposing the British perspective, and the novel Rise and Fall of the third Reich of William L. Shirer. Furthermore I will watch documentary videos such as ‘L’Armata Italiana in Russia’ which describes well the different steps the Italian troops had to follow in order to help the Germans arrive in Stalingrad and ‘La disfatta in Russia’ which gives a detailed chronology of the most relevant battles occurred. I also intend to compare interpretations of different historians, found on websites such as Spartacus.co.uk, and use their quotations to support my arguments in order to create an encompassing and multifaceted exploration and knowledge of the extent of the Italian participation in the Operation Barbarossa. Summary of evidences(760 )

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