the opposite happened:fascistItaly turned its back to the democratic West and took to the road of alliance withNaziGermany. On October 25, 1936, theRome-Berlin Axiswas proclaimed, but Italy, its strengthdepletedby the Ethiopian campaign and by its support for Nationalist forces during theSpanish...
Fedor von Bock (born December 3, 1880, Küstrin, Germany [now Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland]—died May 1945, Lensahn, Holstein) was a German army officer and field marshal (from 1940), who participated in the German occupation of Austria and the invasions of Poland, France, and Russia dur...