Italian Civil War

Italian Civil War
Part of World War II
Italian Civil War scene. Partisan hanged by republican fascists of the Decima Flottiglia MAS. The sign says "He attempted with weapons to shoot the Decima".
Date September 8, 1943 – May 2, 1945 Location Italy Result Royal/Resistance Italian victory Italian Liberation: End of the German occupation of Italy and dissolution of the Italian Social Republic Execution of Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders Free elections and abolition of the monarchy
Belligerents
Italian Social Republic Supported by:  Nazi Germany	Italian Resistance  Kingdom of Italy Supported by:  United Kingdom  United States  Canada  Australia  New Zealand  British Raj  Free France  Poland  Brazil
Commanders and leaders
National Republican Army: Benito Mussolini † Rodolfo Graziani (POW) Alessandro Pavolini † Renato Ricci Junio Valerio Borghese	CLN/CLNAI: Ivanoe Bonomi Ferruccio Parri Luigi Longo Alfredo Pizzoni Italian Co-belligerent Army: King Victor Emmanuel III Pietro Badoglio Raffaele Cadorna, Jr.
Strength
Italian Social Republic: 520,000–600,000	Italian Resistance: 300,000–350,000  Kingdom of Italy: 150,000–190,000

Royal/Resistance Italian victory

Italian Liberation:

National Republican Army:

CLN/CLNAI:

Italian Co-belligerent Army:

The Italian Civil War (Italian: La guerra civile) is the period between September 8, 1943 (the date of the armistice of Cassibile), and May 2, 1945 (the date of the surrender of German forces in Italy) in which the Italian Resistance and the Italian Co-Belligerent Army fought together and defeated the forces of the Fascist Italian Social Republic.

Claudio Pavone's book Una guerra civile. Saggio storico sulla moralità della Resistenza (A Civil War. Historical Essay On the Morality Of the Resistance), published in 1991, led the term Italian Civil War to become a widespread term used in Italian and international historiography. Although the term had been used before, in the early 1990s it became accepted.

The confrontations between the factions resulted in the torture and death of many civilians. During the Italian Campaign, partisans were supplied by the Western Allies with small arms, ammunition and explosives. Allied forces and partisans cooperated on military missions, parachuting or landing personnel behind enemy lines, often including Italian–American members of OSS. Other operations were carried out exclusively by secret service personnel. Where possible, both sides avoided situations in which Italian units of opposite fronts were involved in combat episodes. In rare cases, clashes between Italians involved partisans and fascists of various armed formations.

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