serviceyears branch allegiance unit rank article_title name
1914 ? -- 1939 1943 -- 1945 royal italian army italy 6th alpini regiment 11th division brennero general -lrb- 1933 -rrb- alberto pariani
 alberto pariani
alberto pariani

alberto pariani -lrb- 27 november 1876 , milan -- 1 march 1955 -rrb- was an italian general .
he fought during world war i , and ended the war as a commander of the 6th `` alpini '' regiment .
from 1925 to 1926 he was operations chief of the army general staff .
from 1927 to 1933 he served as a military attaché to albania and simultaneously as head of the italian military mission in the country .
he was promoted to full general in 1933 and named commander of the 11th division `` brennero '' until 1934 .
from 1934 to 1936 he was deputy chief of the general staff , and from 1936 to 1939 he was chief of the general staff and under-secretary of war .
in 1939 he retired , but in 1943 he was recalled as a general commander of the italian forces operating in albania and as a general governor of albania -lrb- replacing francesco jacomoni di san savino -rrb- .
in albania , he resided with his family in the presidential palace of tirana .
in september 1943 , at the moment of the italian armistice he was captured by the german army and arrested .
he was also arrested at the end of world war ii for crimes alleged to have been committed during service in the fascist regime , from which he was acquitted in 1947 .
