Kingdom of the South

Regno d'Italia
Kingdom of Italy

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1943–1945

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Motto
FERT FERT FERT

Anthem
Marcia Reale

German Occupation:
Salò Republic

Capital

Rome

Government

Constitutional monarchy

King

- 1943-1945

Victor Emmanuel III

Regent

- 1944-1945

Prince Umberto

Prime Minister

- 1943-1944

Pietro Badoglio

- 1944-1945

Ivanoe Bonomi

History

- July 28, 1943

Mussolini deposed

- September 3, 1943

Armistice with the Allies signed

- September 8, 1943

Armistice declared

- June 4, 1944

Liberation of Rome

- May 2, 1945

Surrender of German Forces in Italy

- June 2, 1946

Constitutional referendum

Currency

Italian lira

Fascist Italy

Kingdom of Italy

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The Kingdom of the South, or Regno del Sud, (1943-1945) was a period in the history of the Kingdom of Italy during World War II after it had signed an armistice with the Allies and broken its alliance with Germany. In the northern part of Italy that was occupied by the Germans, the Italian Social Republic was established as a puppet state led by Mussolini. On June 4, 1944 Rome was liberated and the capital was moved there after having been temporarily established in Brindisi and Salerno.

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Italy allied with Germany and declared war on the United Kingdom and France in 1940. In 1941, Italy - with the other Axis powers (₳|₩), Germany and Japan - declared war on the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Allied invasion of Sicily (₳|₩) in 1943, the King dismissed Mussolini and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as Premier. The Badoglio government declared war on Germany, which quickly occupied most of the country and freed Mussolini, who led a brief-lived regime in the north. An anti-fascist popular resistance movement grew during the last two years of the war, harassing German forces before they were driven out in April 1945.^[1]