![]() ![]() We take no satisfaction in invading Italian soil and bringing the tragic devastation of war home to the Italian people. If you continue to tolerate the Fascist regime which serves the evil power of the Nazis, you must suffer the consequences of your own choice. The sole hope for Italy's survival lies in honorable capitulation to the overwhelming power of the military forces of the United Nations. The forces now opposed to you are pledged to destroy the power of Nazi Germany-power which has ruthlessly been used to inflict slavery, destruction, and death on all those who refuse to recognize the Germans as the master race. Italy's seacoasts are threatened by the greatest accumulation of British and Allied sea power ever concentrated in the Mediterranean. The skies over Italy are dominated by the vast air armadas of the United States and Great Britain. Today Germany's hopes for world conquest have been blasted on all fronts. They have fought courageously, but they have been betrayed and abandoned by the Germans on the Russian front and on every battlefield in Africa from El Alamein to Cape Bon. Your soldiers have fought not in the interests of Italy but for Nazi Germany. This association with the designs of Nazi-controlled Germany was unworthy of Italy's ancient traditions of freedom and culture-traditions to which the peoples of America and Great Britain owe so much. In spite of Italy's great vulnerability to attack by air and sea, your Fascist leaders sent your sons, your ships, your air forces, to distant battlefields to aid Germany in her attempt to conquer England, Russia, and the world. Mussolini plunged you into a war which he thought Hitler had already won. Mussolini carried you into this war as the satellite of a brutal destroyer of peoples and liberties. This is the direct consequence of the shameful leadership to which you have been subjected by Mussolini and his Fascist regime. At this moment the combined armed forces of the United States and Great Britain under the command of General Eisenhower and his Deputy, General Alexander, are carrying the war deep into the territory of your country. ![]()
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