translate English to German: In 1929, a concordat with the Vatican was signed, the Lateran treaties , by which the Italian state was at last recognized by the Roman Catholic Church , and the independence of Vatican City was recognized by the Italian state.
Erst seine Besetzung Abessiniens und der spanische Bürgerkrieg führte ihn ab 1936 zur Annäherung an das nationalsozialistische Deutschland.