Italian Civil War

The Italian Civil War, was a civil war in the Kingdom of Italy from 1943 - 1945 during the Italian campaign of World War II. Before the civil war, Italy was on the side of the Axis powers. After an Allied invasion in September 1943, Italy joined the Allies. The German army occupied the north of the country and set up fascist government called the Italian social republic. Fighting continued until the royal Italian victory in May 1945.

Italian Civil War
Part of The Italian Campaign of World War II
Date 8 September 1943 - 2 May 1945 Location Italy Result Royal Italian and Italian Resistance victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy Italian Resistance United Kingdom United States	Italian Social Republic Nazi Germany
Commanders and leaders
Ivanoe Bonomi Alcide De Gasperi Luigi Longo Ferruccio Parri Alfredo Pizzoni Raffaele Cadorna Jr. Victor Emmanuel III Prince Umberto Pietro Badoglio Giovanni Messe	Benito Mussolini Executed Alessandro Pavolini Executed Rodolfo Graziani Surrendered Junio Valerio Borghese # Renato Ricci
Units involved
Italian Co-belligerent Army	National Republican Army

Italian Civil War Media

• A group of Italian partisans

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  The head of RSI, Benito Mussolini, with a soldier in 1944

• War flag of the Italian Social Republic.svg

  War flag of the Italian Social Republic

• Flag of the Arditi del Popolo Battalion.svg

  Flag of Arditi del Popolo, an axe cutting a fasces. Arditi del Popolo was a militant anti-fascist group founded in 1921 in Italy.

• Carlo Rosselli 1.jpg

  Carlo Rosselli (1899-1937)

• Matteotti.jpg

  Giacomo Matteotti

• Concentrazione di azione antifascista.jpg

  1931 badge of a member of Concentrazione Antifascista Italiana

• Votazione odg Grandi.jpg

  The official outcome of the vote of the Grandi agenda

• Pietro Badoglio.jpg

  Портрет итальянского маршала Пьетро Бадольо