Italo Balbo (HM6)

Italo Balbo (* June 6th, 1896 in Quartesana, Ferrara) is an Italian fascist Politician and aviation pioneer. As Minister of the Air Force (1929–33) and Marshal of the Air Force (Maresciallo dell'Aria), he was a central character building the Italian airforce, the . Since 1934, he is the General governor of Italian , where he had the coastal street Via Balbia built.
During the "March on ", he was one of the Quadrumviri del o, the four Men who had planned it. Although he barely knew anything about flying, appointed him Secretary of State for Air in 1926.
During the n war, he also made Plans to attack and the .
After the German invasion of , he vehemently and publicly spoke against the alliance with , going so far to say "You will all wind up shining the shoes of the Germans!", and advocated joining the war on the Side of . In 1938, he was the only member of the Fascist regime who strongly opposed the new antisemitic "Racial Laws". 
He is privately friends with .
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