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Showing posts with label Pietro Badoglio. Show all posts
3 September 2025

Armistice of Cassibile

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Document hastened end of World War II for Italy Watched by Major-General Smith (right), General Castellano signs the armistice A secret agre...
25 July 2025

Mussolini removed from power

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Dictator ousted and placed under arrest Mussolini, whose regime ruled Italy from 1922 until his arrest in 1943 The Fascist regime that had r...
15 June 2021

Carlo Scorza - politician and journalist

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Blackshirt who was last party secretary of Mussolini’s Fascists  Carlo Scorza was a prominent figure in Mussolini's notorious Blackshirt...
3 September 2019

Giuseppe Bottai - Fascist turncoat

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Ex-Mussolini minister who fought with Allies Giuseppe Bottai met Mussolini for the first time at a Futurist rally in Rome Giuseppe ...
24 February 2019

Bettino Craxi - prime minister

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The Socialist who broke the grip of the Christian Democrats Bettino Craxi was the first socialist prime  minister of Italy in the mode...
28 September 2018

Pietro Badoglio - soldier and politician

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Controversial general who turned against Mussolini Pietro Badoglio was Mussolini's Chief of Staff from 1925 to 1940 Marshal Piet...
22 July 2018

Palermo falls to the Allies

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Capture of Sicilian capital triggered ousting of Mussolini The American forces were welcomed as liberators by many ordinary Sicilian c...
30 September 2017

Angelo Cerica - Carabinieri general

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First job was to arrest Mussolini General Cerica was hand-picked as the Carabinieri commander to arrest Mussolini General Angelo Ce...