Wow, miss a few days drinking and dancing…well watching others dance anyways…but I digress. We no longer have an expert on the WWII food thingee/justification whatchermacallit?
Italian troops were greatly important in policing the Balkans. Italy had around 200,000 troops in the Balkan States. After 1943 Germany did not have the man power for the occupational duties the Balkans required.