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How did Italians take Greece? This was a great moment for the West because Mussolini invaded Greece from the North and he was repelled. The first moment where the Axis forces showed weakness-it showed that Hitler's forces where just humans and that resistance is possible-organized well it could mean victory.

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Very good point, I was merely glancing at a timeline and listing the interesting bits and I must've changed some wording with Greece. The Italians definitely didn't "take" Greece, but they had invaded by October 1940 and were subsequently repelled a few months later.

Hitler actually blamed Mussolini's "idiotic campaign in Greece" for his failure in securing major victories against the USSR, so we definitely have much to thank the Greek army for.

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