Benito Mussolini reorganized Italian railway traffic in 1941.

Benito Mussolini (1883.1945)

Autographed telegram letter signed to the prefects of Pesaro.

One folio page in Italian, on letterhead "Il Duce del Fascismo"

Rome. September 10, 1941 [according to the postmark]. 

While Operation Barbarossa was being deployed on the Russian front at Hitler's initiative, Mussolini, a loyal ally of the Third Reich, was reorganizing Italian rail traffic.

"Prefects of Pesaro. Inform those concerned, and in particular the Podestà of Fossombrone, that as of today, I have given orders to immediately resume the operation and financing of the Fano-Germignano railway line. Mussolini."

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Original version : Prefetti Pesaro. Communicate agli interested and in particular modo al podesta di Fossombrone che in data odierna ho ordinato the immediato ripristino and financing of the Ferrovia Fano-Germignano. Mussolini.