All three Axis powers boasted of the superiority of their fascist militaries. But the Germans, Japanese, and Italians never paused to add up the populations, resources, ...

For all practical purposes, Russia had been Nazi Germany’s most useful ally. Once the United States entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Axis cause was largely doomed.

“This Berlin-Rome protocol is not a barrier,” Mussolini said. “It is rather an axis around which all European states animated by a desire for peace may collaborate on troubles.” Far from being ...

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“There’s a scattered memory of their sacrifice all over Europe.” The Allied powers relied on colonial troops to defeat the Axis, but their contributions are not often recognized.

More than 60 years later, in a divisive 2002 State of the Union address, US president George W. Bush co-opted Mussolini’s words, branding Iraq, Iran and North Korea an “axis of evil” for ...