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The Surrender at Caserta (Italian: Resa di Caserta, pronounced [ˈreːza di kaˈzɛrta]) of 29 April 1945 was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of German and Italian Fascist forces in Italy, ending the Italian Campaign of World War II.
Italy joined the war as one of the Axis Powers in 1940 (as the French Third Republic surrendered) with a plan to concentrate Italian forces on a major offensive against the British Empire in Africa and the Middle East, known as the "parallel war", while expecting the collapse of British forces in the European theatre.
World War II propaganda leaflets – use in Italy Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine: A website about airdropped, artillery-delivered or rocket-fired propaganda leaflets. Italian campaign. BBC's flash video of the Italian campaign; Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War – The Sicilian and Italian Campaigns, 1943–1945
The Armistice of Cassibile (Italian: Armistizio di Cassibile) [1] was an armistice that was signed on 3 September 1943 between Italy and the Allies during World War II.It was made public five days later.
The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War. [6] The attack in the Lombard Plain by the 15th Allied Army Group started on 6 April 1945 and ended on 2 May with the surrender of all Axis forces in Italy.
Accordingly, after some bitter wrangling between Wolff and Albert Kesselring in the early hours of 2 May, nearly 1,000,000 men in Italy and Austria surrendered unconditionally to British Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander on 2 May at 2 pm. [13] German forces in Berlin surrender: The Battle of Berlin ended on 2 May.
The Italian Instrument of Surrender was a legal document which was signed by Italy and the Allies, effecting the unconditional surrender of Italy to the Allies. It was signed at 11:30 on 29 September 1943 and immediately took effect on the day it was signed.
The German surrender at Akershus Fortress (Norway) on 11 May 1945. This is a timeline showing surrenders of the various fighting groups of the Axis forces that also marked ending time of World War II: