Enea Navarini

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Enea Navarini
Second Italo-Abyssinian War World War II

Enea Navarini (1 April 1885 in

from 1940 to 1943.

Biography

From 1939 to 1941 Enea Navarini was the general officer commanding the

.

In Africa, Navarini became one of the most trusted assistants to Erwin Rommel and at some time also appointed as Chief of DELEASE (Detachment of the Italian Supreme Command in North Africa) until his repatriation on 14 October 1942. He returned to North Africa, at Rommel's direct request, for the Second Battle of El Alamein, once again commanding the XXI Corps.

After the defeat of the

, he was evacuated to Italy.

Posted as commanding general of the XIX Army Corps in Campania, following the Armistice of Cassibile Navarini managed to escape and reach Northern Italy, where he joined the forces of the newborn army of the Italian Social Republic (RSI). Since 1944 he became Commander of the RSI Special Forces Training Unit.

After the end of the war, in April 1945, he was subjected to an administrative process of political legal purge ("administrative trial") with the loss of his role and rank, but in the course of the same year such measures were revoked by legal decision of a superior Court of Justice ("judicial trial").

Sources

• "Biography of Lieutenant-General Enea Navarini". Generals.dk.

Bibliography

• The Trail of the Fox (1977), a biography of
  ISBN 1-84022-205-0
• Greene, Jack & Massignani, Alessandro: Rommel's North Africa Campaign: September 1940-November 1942, Da Capo Press, 2007
  ISBN 0-306-81685-7

References