[Click here to read the first installment] Poland, Denmark and Norway had fallen to Nazi Germany and the blitzkrieg up through France, Holland and Belgium was just months away by the time the 1940 so-called Mille Miglia took place. Hardly a time to be thinking of pleasant pastimes like motor racing, but Italy had not yet entered the war on Germany’s side, even though the Fascists were well and truly in power, headed by Benito Mussolini. There had been no…
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