Graziani was one of the worst and bloodiest generals in the Italian Fascist Military. He started being harsh against its own soldiers since WWI and once he became General in WWII he just used his soldiers as puppets, fatalities being more caused by his own doing and punishment than from actual war efforts.
He started being harsh against its own soldiers since WWI and once he became General in WWII he just used his soldiers as puppets, fatalities being more caused by his own doing and punishment than from actual war efforts.
I think on this you are mixing up Rodolfo Graziani with another general with the same name, Andrea Graziani. The latter was noted in WWI for his cruelty against his own men - he ordered a number of summary executions and in one occasion he had a soldier shot because he felt had looked at him in a disrespectful way.
Rodolfo Graziani was successful as a 'colonial' general (in Libya and Ethiopia) but also a war criminal, and he utterly lost when he faced for the first time a modern, mechanized European army.
