. Mussolini could have crushed the Germans then and their but he gave Hitler Austria. Hitler was eternally greatful for this.
give me a break, the italians struggled against austria in ww1 and they had several times their population, and in WW2 they could barely handle yugoslavia, which eventually required german reinforcements, and could not handle greece on their own. if they would have invaded germany even in 1933, the italians would have been crushed beyond belief.
LOL thats why mussolini chose ETHIOPIA to 'conquer' because the only thing the italians could conquer were spear-chucking natives