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THE ALLIES AND THE ITALIAN SOCIAL REPUBLIC (194...

Italy's change of camp during World War II marked a turning point in the lives of all Italians
causing the «death of the fatherland» and the collapse of a two-decade long  dictatorial
régime. Also  this switch triggered a bloody civil war  which increasingly divided an already
fragmented country into two separate territories: the Salò Republic (RSI)  occupied and
controlled by the Germans  and the Southern Kingdom  occupied and administered by the
Anglo-Americans. This book is about the British and American relations with  perceptions of 
and judgments on the RSI. The period examined runs from September 1943 through April 1945 with
some incursions into the immediate post-war period  when the Allied Control Commission and 
after the fall of 1944  the Allied Commission and the Advisory Council for Italy  were still
functioning. During this time frame Anglo-American troops were still occupying Italian soil 
and some republican fascists remained in hiding  waiting to appear again on the political scene
as turncoats  diehard fascists or «gladiators». While the first part of the monograph deals
specifically with the relations between the latter and the Allies  the second deals with
American and British journalists and or intellectuals who wrote about or worked for the RSI.
The last section is dedicated to the different categories of post-9 8 Prisoners of War.

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