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On 8 November 1932 Hassell took up his position as ambassador in Rome, thus representing the interests of the German Reich in Italy for the third time. The situation had changed radically since March 1921, when he had last left the Italian capital. The March on Rome had ended in triumph for Mussolini. With his appointment as minister president on 30 October 1922, fascist rule had been consolidated. At the end of 1932 the domestic position of the ‘Duce’ was more or less unchallenged.
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Hans Bernd Gisevius, Bis zum bitteren Ende, Vol. 2 (Zurich, 1946), p. 194.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, ‘Hitlers Kriegsziele’, in W. Michalka (ed.), Nationalsozialistische Aussenpolitik (Darmstadt, 1978), pp. 31 ff., esp. pp. 38–9.
Galeazzo Ciano, Ciano’s Diary 1937–1939 (London, 1949), p. 59.
Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Nationalsozialistische Aussenpolitik 1933–1938 (Frankfurt-Main/Berlin, 1968), pp. 348 and 368.
Erich Kordt, Nicht aus den Akten… (Stuttgart, 1950), p. 72.
See Friedrich Hossbach, Zwischen Wehrmacht and Hitler 1934–1938 (Göttingen, 2 1965), pp. 83–4.
Ulrich von Hassell, Deutschlands und Italiens europäische Sendung (Cologne, 1937), p. 19.
See in detail Wolfgang Michalka, Ribbentrop und die deutsche Weltpolitik 1933–40. Aussenpolitische Konzeptionen und Entscheidungsprozesse im Dritten Reich (Munich, 1980), esp. pp. 247 ff.
Marion Thielenhaus, Zwischen Anpassung und Widerstand: Deutsche Diplomaten 1938–1941. Die politischen Aktivitäten der Beamtengruppe um Ernst von Weizsäcker im Auswärtigen Amt (Paderborn, 1984), p. 28.
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Schöllgen, G. (1991). Ambassador of the Third Reich. In: A Conservative Against Hitler. St Antony's. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21757-1_6
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