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Ambrosio, General Vittorio

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 692 words | Copyright

Ambrosio, General Vittorio (1879–1958),commander of Italian occupation forces in Yugoslavia before becoming Army Chief of Staff in January 1942. In February 1943 he replaced Cavallero as Chief of the Italian High Command (see Comando Supremo), a post in which he intrigued against Mussolini, whose fall he helped to bring about. On 9 September 1943, after the announcement of the Italian armistice with the Allies, he fled from Rome before the Germans occupied it, and was subsequently appointed minister of war in Badoglio's government while remaining head of Comando Supremo. In November 1943 he relinquished both posts and was appointed Inspector-General of Italian forces.

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