Italian resistance movement
The Italian resistance movement (Italian: Resistenza italiana or just la Resistenza) is a term for Italian resistance groups during World War II.
Italian resistance movement | |
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Participant in the Italian Civil War and World War II | |
Active | Most active 1943–1945; the Resistance originated following the rise of Fascist Italy in the 1920s |
Ideology | Various: Generally anti-fascism Mainly various forms of communism, socialism, and anarchism; Republicanism and liberalism To a lesser extent: Liberal socialism Christian democracy Catholic anti-fascism / Catholic anti-Nazism Catholic socialism Social liberalism Social democracy Monarchism |
Allies | |
Opponent(s) | Axis powers (Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Italian Social Republic) |
It was against the forces of Nazi Germany as well as the Italian Social Republic between September 1943 and April 1945
Known as partisans (Italian: partigiani), the brutal conflict they took part in is called the Italian Liberation War.
Italian Resistance Movement Media
Italians shot by invading Germans in Barletta, 12 September 1943
Map of Italy during the Civil War, focusing on the Italian Social Republic
Partisan monument (Arcevia) with Italian and Yugoslav names
Monument to the fallen at the burial place of partisans killed on April 26, 1945, at Montù Beccaria (2007)
Mussolini – captured and executed by Italian Partisans, along with his mistress Clara Petacci and three other Fascist officials (Milan, 1945)
A woman executed by public hanging in a street of Rome, early 1944
Other websites
- Italy | European Resistance Archive
- (in Italian) ANPI – Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia
- (in Italian) ANCFARGL – Associazione Nazionale Combattenti Forze Armate Regolari Guerra di Liberazione
- (in Italian) INSMLI – Istituto Nazionale per la Storia del Movimento di Liberazione in Italia
- (in Italian) Il portale della guerra di Liberazione
- Anarchist partisans in the Italian Resistance