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  2. Sicilian Peasant Telling an American Officer Which Way the ...

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    Italy. August 1943 is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Sicily on 4 August 1943. Capa had come to Sicily in late July 1943 to document the Allies invasion of the Italian island and took many photographs related to the conflict, presenting the American soldiers, the German invaders, the Italian partisans and the civilian ...

  3. Italian campaign (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.

  4. German occupation of Rome - Wikipedia

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    The expression Failed defense of Rome (also conceptually referred to as the German occupation of Rome) refers to the events that took place in the Italian capital and the surrounding area, beginning on 8 September 1943, and in the days immediately following the Armistice of Cassibile and the immediate military reaction of the German Wehrmacht forces deployed to the south and north of the city ...

  5. Allied invasion of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...

  6. Operation Achse - Wikipedia

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    Operation Achse (German: Fall Achse, lit. 'Case Axis'), originally called Operation Alaric (Unternehmen Alarich), was the codename for the German operation to forcibly disarm the Italian armed forces after Italy's armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943.

  7. Spring 1945 offensive in Italy - Wikipedia

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    There were another 91,000 German troops on the lines of communication, and Germans commanded about 100,000 Italian police. [8] [4] Three of the Italian divisions were allocated to the Ligurian Army under Rodolfo Graziani which guarded the western flank facing France. Finally, the fourth division was with the 14th Army in a sector thought less ...

  8. Military history of Italy during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Italian invasion of British Somaliland was one of the few successful Italian campaigns of World War II accomplished without German support. In Sudan and Kenya, Italy captured small territories around several border villages, after which the Italian Royal Army in East Africa adopted a defensive posture in preparation for expected British ...

  9. German-occupied Europe - Wikipedia

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    German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.