ITALIAN 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Italian Language, Italian Social Republic, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No real trials for fascist leaders: no accusations/punishment for war crimes. 1940: italy enters wwii on side of nazi germany. 1941: british forces seize control ofitalian east africa. 1943: north africa is a theater of war", anditaly loses control of libya. 1943: allies reach the peninsula and travel up through italy. 1943: 8 september, italy declares itself non-belligerent"; 12 september, mussolini is. 1943-1945: mussolini heads the italian social republic, based in sal on lake. The rsi is backed up by nazi germany, and ghts against allied forces as well as. Italian national ones and anti-fascist partisans", i. e. the (largely communist-allied) Allies liberate rome, june 1944 (speci cally u. s. : not all italians loved the u. s. 28 april, 1945: mussolini killed by (antifascist/communist) partisans. Controversy surrounding pope pius and his knowledge of holocaust, role with. General denial of fault in post-war italy: king becomes scapegoat. Monarchs are not allowed on italian soil: no discussion of colonialism.
