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October 13th 1940

Benito Mussolini was in chains.

A war between Germany and the allies had been brewing, and he had been given a choice, in the end he decided that a victorious germany would invitably turn on its former allies, expecially their Italian allies and when Hitler declared war. He declared war on Hitler.

France lost, The UK had been forced to flee europe and Italy simply wasn't able to resist the german war machine. All he could do was do a holding action in rome and help the vast majority of Italy's milatary, its entire navy, and the whole of Italy's jewish population flee to Lybia. Umberto the 2 King of Italy had like wise escaped to Lybia. The crowd was silent.

Hitler gave an hour long speech, about Germany's victory and he gave Mussolini one last chance to join the axis, one last chance to remain leader of his country with conditions of course. Camera's were on him, a swedish reporter was recording it all on a for the time advanced movie camera. The world was watching him. Mussolini was known for his speeches too, but his response was simply to spit in Hitlers face, he was hung with in the hour.

But what If Mussolini had said yes? How would world war 2 change? How would Italian history change, how would Italian culture change? What would the world look like if Italy had joined the Axis?
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