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Pact of Steel

German-Italian treaty established common cause in future undertakings. [Eur. Hist.: Shirer, 646–648]
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One massive linguistic irony was the "Pact of Steel" concluded during the war by the Germans, Italians and Japanese.
PACT OF STEEL (1.00) can show his mettle for Harry Dunlop in the Betway Handicap.
1939 Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini sign 'Pact of Steel'.
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Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, made his declaration first - from the balcony over the Piazza Venezia in Rome - pledging the "powers of the pact of steel" were determined to win.
The Rome-Berlin Axis was difficult and unequal, and Hitler ordered the assault on Poland even before signing the Pact of Steel, but Mussolini was a victim of his own doctrine.
The original members were Germany and Italy, which concluded a military alliance, the Pact of Steel, in 1939.
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