The WWII Italian and Greek saga: death, destruction, revenge, resistance and a little mea culpa Pr. 2

WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day Italy, Europe · Aug 16, 2026 · 36m

``The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see,'' Winston Churchill

By Joe Kirwin

When Italian dictator Benito Mussolini joined Adolph Hitler as an ally in WWII, Greece, whose monarch and head-of-state shared direct bloodlines with the British monarchy, allied with the United Kingdom and stood by the British through the dark days of the war when Hitler had overrun the European continent. That was a bond that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill never forgot and played a role in why he backed the Greeks in the face of the Nazi invasion of their country in 1941. And…