Pietro Badoglio

Pietro Badoglio

Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (28 September 1871, Grazzano Monferrato (later Grazzano Badoglio), province of Asti (Piedmont) – 1 November 1956) was one of the Benito Mussolini's generals, known to be on the list of Italian war criminals that Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia requested an extradition of, but who never saw anything like Nuremberg trial, because the British government with the beginning of the Cold War saw in Pietro Badoglio, who was also on the list, a guarantee of an anti-communist post-war Italy. During the Ethiopia campaign in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War he ordered the use of poison gas and systematically bombardement of the Red Cross hospitals and ambulances.