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Marshal Pietro Badoglio, the new Prime Minister of Italy after the fall of Mussolini from power. After the surrender of the Axis powers in North Africa on 13 May 1943, the Allies bombed Rome on 16 May, invaded Sicily on 10 July and prepared to land on the Italian mainland.
Germany began Operation Achse, a campaign to disarm Italian forces and occupy Italy. On 23 September, the Italian Social Republic was established by the Germans with Mussolini, after a German force led by SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny rescued him from Campo Imperatore, as the head of state. [3] [page needed]
Grandi understood that the new government wanted to let the Fascist contribution to the fall of Mussolini fade away. He convoked the ambassadors of Spain and Switzerland, who were eager to get a first-hand account, to his office in Montecitorio under the sole request that his account be published in the press. [166]
Comando Supremo (Supreme Command) was the highest command echelon of the Italian Armed Forces between June 1941 and May 1945. Its predecessor, the Stato Maggiore Generale (General Staff), was a purely advisory body with no direct control of the several branches of the armed forces and with very little staff.
The news of the fall of Mussolini and the creation of a military government led by Marshal Pietro Badoglio surprised and enraged Hitler, who immediately understood that, despite assurances by Badoglio and Italian diplomats, the change of regime was a prelude to an Italian defection, which would endanger the German forces fighting in Southern ...
The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War (2007) Moseley, Ray. Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce (2004) Roberto Chiarini [in Italian] (2004). Mussolini ultimo atto. I luoghi della Repubblica di Salò (in Italian and German). Roccafranca: La compagnia della stampa. ISBN 88-8486-105-5. OCLC 804881568.
Films about Benito Mussolini — an Italian fascist prime minister and dictator before and during World War II .
On 1 May, Graziani ordered the Army Group Liguria to surrender, while all German and RSI forces in Italy surrendered a day after. The Soviets were present at the signing event. The Soviet Military Command sent General Aleksei Kislenko [ ru ] to Caserta to witness the signing ceremony after the Soviets protested the secret negotiations between ...