Note: Claretta (Clara) Petacci was the mistress of Benito Mussolini.Via Telegraph.co.uk:
Claretta Petacci's journals, which will be published this week, describe a meeting he [Mussolini] had with the German leader in 1938 after British prime minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland.
"The Fuhrer was very kind. At heart, Hitler is an old sentimentalist. When he saw me he had tears in his eyes," Mussolini told his lover.
The diaries also show Mussolini was irritated by being regarded as a junior partner to Hitler, maintaining that his fascism and anti-Semitism dated back to the 1920s, before Hitler rose to prominence.
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