“Those Germans don’t have a human soul, so they fight like monsters. We Italians, on the other hand, have a generous nature and actually don’t know how to properly hate anyone. That’s why our people have a bad mentality, so they’re not good at war. To be good at war, “You have to hate.”
– Remarks made by Italian Marshal Giovanni Messe during the interrogation of a prisoner after he surrendered to the Allies after being surrounded in Tunisia.