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Mario Roatta

1887 - 1968

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Mario Roatta (2 February 1887 – 7 January 1968) was an Italian general. After serving in World War I he rose to command the Corpo Truppe Volontarie which assisted Francisco Franco's nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. He was the deputy chief of staff of the Italian Army from October 1939 to March 1941 and from March 1941 to January 1942 its chief of staff and helped in preparing for the invasion of Yugoslavia. Roatta would gain the nickname "Black Beast of Yugoslavia” due to his brutal methods of repression. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Roatta is the 930th most popular military personnel (down from 813th in 2019), the 2,157th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,936th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Italian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mario Roatta ranks 930 out of 2,058. Before him are Otto Wöhler, George B. McClellan, Esmail Ghaani, Fritz von Below, Karl Frenzel, and Fritz Freitag. After him are Princess Pingyang, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Khalil al-Wazir, Friedrich Hossbach, Sosthenes of Macedon, and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Mario Roatta ranks 99. Before him are Rudolph Lewis, Octave Lapize, Louis Jouvet, Miklós Kállay, Hanns Kerrl, and Antanas Merkys. After him are Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Georg Heym, Lil Dagover, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Samuil Marshak, and Josef Frings. Among people deceased in 1968, Mario Roatta ranks 80. Before him are Cassandre, Tivadar Soros, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Santos Iriarte, Thomas Merton, and Tullio Serafin. After him are Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Darío Moreno, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Charles Munch, Gabriel Hanot, and Cornell Woolrich.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mario Roatta ranks 2,157 out of 5,161. Before him are Antiochus of Syracuse (-450), Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (1852), Philip of Opus (-400), Marcel Bich (1914), Umberto Bossi (1941), and Bruno Rossi (1905). After him are Azeglio Vicini (1933), Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1549), Antonio Grimani (1434), Vitale Faliero (1100), Andrew Corsini (1301), and Pippo Spano (1369).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Italy

Among military personnels born in Italy, Mario Roatta ranks 38. Before him are Giovanni Andrea Doria (1539), Ottavio Piccolomini (1599), Gaius Suetonius Paulinus (10), Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (1781), Marco Antonio Bragadin (1523), and Hermocrates (-500). After him are Federico Gravina (1756), Alfredo Guzzoni (1877), Oreste Baratieri (1841), Viktor Dankl von Krasnik (1854), Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (1915), and Matteo I Visconti (1250).

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