Real Time History

Season 2025, Episode 6

Episode Title: Mussolini's Blunder: Greece and North Africa 1940

Air Date: 2025-04-04

Overview:

Hitler's victories in 1940 present a historic opportunity to Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini to expand the Italian Empire. Instead, Italy suffers a series of humiliating disasters in Greece and North Africa. So why did Mussolini declare war on the Allies at this moment, and could Germany be ultimately responsible for the Italian fiasco?