Pietro Gazzera (11 December 1879 – 30 June 1953) was an officer in the Italian Royal Army during World War II, as well as a prewar Italian politician.
Gazzera was born in Bene Vagienna, he joined the Italian Army and fought in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I. He was one of the signatories of the Armistice of Villa Giusti, which ended the war with Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front.
In 1928, starting as the Under-Secretary in the Ministry of War, Gazzera was the Minister of War from 1929 to 1933.[1] From 1 August 1938 to 6 July 1941, Gazzera was the Governor of Galla-Sidamo in Italian East Africa.
General Gazzera commanded forces in the "Southern Sector" (the Galla and Sidamo area around Jimma) during the East African Campaign. Following the fall of Amba Alagi in May 1941, Gazzera succeeded Amedeo, Duke of Aosta as the acting Governor-General of Italian East Africa. After Jimma fell on 21 June, Gazzera staged a mobile defense and held out in Galla-Sidamo for several weeks. His forces finally capitulated in July 1941 when he was cut off by the Free Belgian Forces of Major-General Auguste-Éduard Gilliaert.
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Gilliaert on 7 July 1941, and included nine generals, among them General PietroGazzera and Count Arconovaldo Bonaccorsi, 370 officers, and 2,574 NCOs and 1...
needed a foreign war to distract public opinion. Other historians such as Pietro Pastorelli have argued that the invasion was launched as part of an expansionist...
campaign of 1940–1941. On 3 July 1941, the Italian forces (under General PietroGazzera) surrendered when they were cut off by the Force Publique. A Congolese...
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in East Africa. On 6 July, after Duke Amedeo of Aosta and Generale PietroGazzera surrendered, Nasi became the acting Governor-General of Italian East...
Gilliaert cut off the retreat of Italian General PietroGazzera in Ethiopia and accepted the surrender of Gazzera's 7,000 troops. After the successful conclusion...
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retreat of Italian army of General PietroGazzera at the Siege of Saïo in the Ethiopian Highlands, later accepting Gazzera's surrender with 7,000 of his soldiers...
Auguste-Édouard Gilliaert, successfully cut off the retreat of General PietroGazzera's Italians at Saïo, in the Ethiopian Highlands after marching over 1...
During the East African Campaign of 1941, the Dubats served with the PietroGazzera army group. Following the British military occupation of Italian Somaliland...
ez-Zor was fought in Syria, resulting in Allied victory. Italian General PietroGazzera surrendered to Belgian Congolese forces after his stronghold at Saio...
Jung briefly served as finance minister a second time – in 1944 – under Pietro Badoglio but was dismissed after three months following allegations concerning...
ArmandoArmando Felsani (1892–?) 10 July 1938 12 August 1938 33 days 3 Gazzera, PietroPietroGazzera (1879–1953) 12 August 1938 6 July 1941 2 years, 328 days...
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