Why was Villa Gaggia chosen as the setting for Hitler & Mussolini's July 1943 meeting?
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Villa Gaggia was chosen by neither Hitler nor Mussolini. The Fascists were already plotting to overthrow Mussolini and get out of the war, and contrived to make the locus of the meeting as difficult to reach and unaccommodating as possible. That's why that remote villa was chosen by them. It was a rather churlish ploy, conceived in a typically Italian fashion. What Athena Castella wrote is a complete fiction. The area was not yet under German control, and the Allies had not even landed in Italy by then. Hitler was mad that the Italians had chosen the place because so much time was wasted just getting there and there was not enough time to discuss the situation. (which was exactly what the Italians had intended!)
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The two planned to meet at Villa Gaggia for a few reasons:
Villia Gaggia was or had a bunker, protecting both figures from attack
Villia Gaggia was in Belluno, far away from the front lines
Mussolini had already knew about the house and probably liked it.
The Reich had direct control over the location
"Unpublished documents confirm the hypothesis. Talking about this "evidence" is so far unknown Doglioni Paul : "In a publication of 2012," Pieces of history Belluno ", I reported rumors hypothetical project to create an additional seat for Benito Mussolini at Villa Gaggia in Socchieva, just kilometers from Belluno, "recalls Doglioni. "Mussolini knew the house, since I met Adolf Hitler, 19 July 1943. In addition, after September 8, the province of Belluno, with Trento and Bolzano, was part dell'Alpenvorland, directly under the military administration of the Third Reich"
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