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Hitler’s plan to leave the Mediterranean and southern Balkans for Mussolini to control began to go awry when Italy, which had occupied Albania in 1939, attacked Greece with Hitler’s approval on 28 October 1940. Hitler may well have hoped that this would put further pressure on Britain, but the Greeks fought back vigorously, and by the start of December were counter-attacking into Albania.
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© 2004 Martin Folly
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Folly, M.H. (2004). The German Invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Second World War. Palgrave Concise Historical Atlases. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502390_12
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