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Inspection of general Gariboldi

General Gariboldi, commander of the Italian 8th Army in Russia from july 1942, inspects a captured T34. Summer 1942. DVX


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/italian-forces/40309/inspection-of-general-gariboldi

How many did the Italians capture of them?

I don’t know. I know a train full of supply and tanks was captured (I posted a pic if you remember). Anyway there was an agreement between the Italian Comando Supremo and the German Oberkommando: the most of the material captured by the Italians in Russia should be left to the Germans, and the most of the material captured by the Germans in North Africa should be delivered to the Italians. The result was that the Germans received the material in Russia and kept it in Africa…