Piero Mannelli

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Piero Mannelli (born July 10 or August 8, 1896 in San Romano, died in the early 70's in Rome) is an Italian military general inspector of Italian Waffen SS units serving in Germany during the Second World War. p>

He participated in the First World War; He fought in the Alpine units against the Austrians as Lieutenant. After completing warfare, he studied chemistry at the University of Rome. In October 1920 he joined the National Fascist Party, becoming secretary of the grouping in San Romano. He took part at the end of October 1922 in the so-called. marching to Rome, which resulted in Benito Mussolini gaining power in Italy. In 1927 he took command of the VII Milicia Volontaria Militia (MVSN) in Florence. In 1931 he became commander of the II Alpine Legion MVSN in Turin. He participated in the Italian-Abyssinian War in 1935-1936. He then participated in the Spanish Civil War. Initially he was in charge of the Italian battalion and then became the head of the training center at Valladolid. In May 1939 he returned to Italy. From the mid. In June 1940 he was a staff officer of the 6th Army Corps in Bologna and soon assumed command of the MVSN Legion in Florence. In February 1941, he was recommissioned to occupied Albania as a staff officer of the 6th Army Corps. In June 1941, he was transferred to Benghazi where he became commander of the MVSN Legion. In October 1942 he returned to Italy, where he headed the MVSN university militia. Following Italy's proclamation of a truce and the creation of the Italian Social Republic (RSI) In September 1943, he took command of Gruppo Battaglioni da Sbarco MSNV in Toulon, southern France. At that time he was promoted to Major General. In January 1944 he returned to Italy and volunteered for the Waffen-SS. On March 24 he was awarded the rank of Waffen-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Waffen-SS. Initially, he served as inspector of propaganda and press at the Voluntary Italian Legion. Then, until April 25, 1945, he was the general inspector of the Italian Waffen-SS (Inspkteur der SS freiwilligenwerbung in Italien). On April 29, he was captured under the pseudonym "Capitano Adelmo" by the British and placed in jail in Como. He was sentenced to a long prison term.

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