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Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, in charge of central and southern Italy, takes over in Rome and leads the resistance to the Allied landing at Salerno. German forces will move to disarm Italian garrisons in France, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece.
- A Timeline, Part Two
April 15 Communist partisans, led by Bruno Fanciullacci,...
- A Timeline, Part Two
April 15 Communist partisans, led by Bruno Fanciullacci, kill Giovanni Gentile (Fascist political philosopher and former minister of education in the Fascist regime) in Florence. April 16 South African 6 th Armored Division lands at Taranto.
Italy. Adolf Hitler traveled to Florence, Italy for a meeting with Benito Mussolini in an attempt to stop the Italians from attacking Greece, but it was too late. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Florence, Toscana | TH]
Contrary to Winston Churchill's belief that Italy was the "soft underbelly" of Axis-dominated Europe, the Allied campaign in Italy was a long and bloody undertaking. Top image: Five Italian partisans examine a map, location in Italy unknown, probably late 1944 or early 1945.
Italian Campaign, (July 9, 1943–May 2, 1945), during World War II, the Allied invasion and conquest of Italy. With the success of operations in North Africa (June 1940–May 13, 1943) and Sicily (July 9–August 17, 1943), the next logical step for the Allies in the Mediterranean was a move against.
18 Νοε 2009 · The Italian Campaign, from July 10, 1943, to May 2, 1945, was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany.
Nearly four million Italians served in the Italian Army during the Second World War and nearly half a million Italians (including civilians) lost their lives between June 1940 and May 1945. Fascist propaganda poster denouncing Allied bombings of Italian cities ("Here are the 'Liberators'!").
