By Joaquin Bochaca. The Last Days of Mussolini & Fascist Italy. It was a tragic time in history, the Italian civil war of 1943-45. The bitter struggle was between the Fascist Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI), allied to the Axis, and a mixed bag of Communist partisans and monarchist soldiers on the other hand.
After the RSI surrendered, as many as 30,000 Italians were rounded up and murdered by the Communists. Here Catalan-Spanish author Joaquin Bochaca offers this recounting of the tragicomic collapse of Fascismin Italy after 1943. [Read the entire article as PDF…]
The Barnes Review, May/June 2012: The Last Days of Mussolini & Fascist Italy