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The Italian Liberation Corps (Italian: Corpo Italiano di Liberazione (CIL)) was a corps of the Italian Co-belligerent Army during the Italian campaign of World War II. After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943 the Italian government began the formation of units to fight on the allied side against Germany. On 18 ...
The Italian Liberation Corps suffered 1,868 killed and 5,187 wounded during the Italian campaign; [10] the Italian Auxiliary Divisions lost 744 men killed, 2,202 wounded and 109 missing. [11] Some sources estimate the overall number of members of the Italian regular forces killed on the Allied side as 5,927.
[27] [k] Fascist Italy, prior to its collapse, suffered about 200,000 casualties, mostly prisoners-of-war taken in the invasion of Sicily, including more than 40,000 killed or missing. [19] Over 150,000 Italian civilians died, as did 35,828 anti-Nazi and anti-fascist partisans and some 35,000 troops of the Italian Social Republic.
Italian Army Service Units in Italy were disbanded on July 1, 1945. [8] [9] Many other Italians joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army (Esercito Cobelligerante Italiano), a Combat Army of the allies. Some Italian allies units were called the Army of the South (Esercito del Sud), or Italian Liberation Corps (Corpo Italiano di Liberazione). [10 ...
Italian Bersaglieri troops with artillery advancing to the front line, July 1942. In July 1941, around 62,000 Italian troops of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia, CSIR) left for the Eastern Front to aid in the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa).
In July 1941, the "Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia" (Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia, or CSIR) arrived and assisted with the German conquest of Ukraine. By 1942, Italian forces in the Soviet Union were more than doubled to become the "Italian Army in Russia" (Armata Italiana in Russia, or ARMIR).
On 7 December 1944, an agreement known as the Rome Protocols was signed in Rome between a delegation of the CVL representing the National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy and the Allies on the structure and functioning of the command, which saw Cadorna as overall commander and Parri and Longo as deputy commanders for operations, with de ...
The collapse of Italy necessitated German troops replacing the Italians in Italy and to a lesser extent the Balkans, resulting in one-fifth of the entire German army being diverted from the east to southern Europe, a proportion that would remain until near the end of the war. [17]