Allies’ cease-fire with Italy

In Italy the population’s war weariness intensified even more due to the massive allied air raids on Sicily and southern Italy. The supply situation for the inhabitants continued to worsen. Gradually the Fascist government has lost control over the southern part of the country. On 25 July 1943, the „Duce“ Benito Mussolini was arrested in Rome and deposed. Marshall Pietro Badoglio took over the reigns of government. On 3 September, Italy signs a cease-fire agreement with the Allies. The „Berlin-Rome Axis“ is broken. The new government in Rome will declare war against the German Reich on 13 October.

Source: sapere.it The new Head of government, Marschall Pietro Badoglio (middle) reading out the declaration of war to the German Reich in Brindisi, in the presence of Maxwell Taylor, an american general who was involved in the conquest of Italy