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Giovanni Messe | |
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![]() Giovanni Messe | |
Chief of Staff of the Italian High Command | |
In office 18 November 1943 – 1 May 1945 | |
Preceded by | Vittorio Ambrosio |
Succeeded by | Claudio Trezzani |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 December 1883 Mesagne, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 18 December 1968 Rome, Italian Republic | (aged 85)
Military service | |
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Years of service | 1901–47 |
Rank | Maresciallo d'Italia |
Commands | First Army German-Italian Panzer Army Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia |
Battles/wars | Italo-Turkish War World War I Second Italo-Abyssinian War |
Giovanni Messe (10 December 1883 – 18 December 1968) was an Italian field marshal and politician.[1] In the Second World War, he was captured in Tunisia but made chief of staff of the Italian Co-belligerent Army after the armistice of September 1943. Later, he was an elected representative in the Italian Senate. He is considered by many to have been the best Italian general of the war.
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