GRAZIANI ON TRIAL
N.Z.P.A.—Copyright ROME. Oct. 14. Red in the face, and shouting at the top of his voice, Field-marshal Rodolfo Graziani told the court trying him on charges of war crimes: “I did not particularly like the Germans, but I would never have gone with the British because I hated them, because I still hate them to-day, and will always hate them for having been the ruin of Italy.” Graziani claimed that the Germans forced him to accept the*post of Minister of Defence in Mussolini’s ' postarmistice Government by threatening to initiate a scorched earth policy in Italy. “The real destroyers of Italy arc the British,” he said.
“It was not the partisans who saved Northern Italy from Hitler’s scotched earth policy,” he added, “ but Mussolini himself.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26904, 16 October 1948, Page 7
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