After the Kingdom of Italy capitulated to the Allies in September 1943, according to Goebbels in his personal diary on 29 September 1943, Hitler had expressed that the Italian-German border should extend to those of the region of Veneto.[134] Veneto was to be included into the Reich in an "autonomous form", and to benefit from the post-war influx of German tourists.[134] At the time when Italy was on the verge of declaring an armistice with the Allies, Himmler declared to Felix Kersten that Northern Italy, along with the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, was "bound to eventually be included in Greater Germany anyway".[135]