Did Hitler blame Mussolini for his own failure ?
Hitler in the second part " Mein Kampf " ( " The National Socialist Movement , " 1926 ) contains this passage:In 1931 , Hitler in an interview spoke admirably about Mussolini , commending Mussolini 's racial origins as being the same as that of Germans , and claimed at the time that Mussolini was capable of building an Italian Empire that would outdo the Roman Empire , and that he supported Mussolini 's endeavors , saying:Mussolini had personal reasons to oppose antisemitism : his longtime mistress and Fascist propaganda director Margherita Sarfatti was Jewish .