Europe’s first twentieth-century fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, gazes pensively at a massive train filled with German soldiers on its way through Italy. In March 1941, he launched a major offensive by invading Greece as part of his larger, ill-timed bid to pursue a Balkan campaign. After the campaign failed Mussolini required German aid to disentangle his forces. In Herblock’s cartoon, the once-powerful leader who “made the trains run on time” appears alone and diminished.

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