Mario Robotti (25 November 1882–1955) was a general in the Royal Italian Army who commanded the

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during the

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invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. He then became military commander in the province of Ljubljana, the Italian zone of occupied

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In February 1943, he succeeded general

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as commander of the Italian Second Army in occupied Yugoslavia.
General Robotti while commanding Italian troops in Axis occupied Yugoslavia in anti- partisan operations, was noted for his brutality, even once complaining to his officers that "you are not slaughtering enough people." During the winter of 1942-1943 Robotti personally chose 10 local dignitaries from the Slovene capital,

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, and had them imprisoned in the city and then stated that they would be executed if the partisans chose to make an attack on the city. https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Fall_of_Mussolini.html?id=-UttMMRXi9AC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false pp 56 At the time of the Armistice of Cassibile in September 1943, he escaped capture by the Germans and retired to a private life in Rapallo where he lived with his family.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robotti, Mario Italian generals Italian military personnel of World War II Yugoslavia in World War II 1882 births 1955 deaths