FASCIST PARTY

And at the moment of choosing, I decided to play the most difficult, the hardest, the most thankless game. A game that would open no path for me toward material or worldly rewards, but would give me a sense of spirituality and moral integrity that no other path could have given me. In every war, the fundamental question is not so much whether one wins or loses, lives or dies, but how one wins, how one loses, how one lives, and how one dies. A war can be lost, but with dignity and loyalty. Surrender and betrayal brand a people for centuries in the eyes of the world." — Junio Valero Borghese, 1970.

Italian soldier in the Eastern Front

Soldiers of the Italian Social Republic. October, 1943.

Italian soldiers remove a Soviet poster addressed to the Red Army, 1942.

Italian fighter pilots with a Macchi C.205, Campoformido, Italy, 1944

Italian troops fighting in North Africa, 1941

An Italian L3 Tankette patrolling the Libyan desert, 1941