Italy was the cradle of the Fascist political model, which was destined to gain popularity and spread beyond national borders after 1922. In Germany, the model was adopted, and implemented with extreme radicalism, from 1933 onwards. Although divided by conflicting interests of a geopolitical and economic nature regarding Austria in particular and the Balkan-Danubian region more generally, the Monarcho-Fascist and National-Socialist regimes could not fail to converge within a political project aimed at the destruction of the international framework and of the balance of power resulting from the Great War and the subsequent peace treaties. The Italian-German entente would start…
