Western Civilization II / Unit 17 WC2 1612 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Italy Changes Sides, and the Resistance
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The idea
In July nineteen forty-three the king dismissed Mussolini and Italy made peace; Germany seized the north and set Mussolini over a puppet republic. Resistance grew across occupied Europe: Tito's partisans tied down thirty-five German divisions in Yugoslavia, Soviet partisans numbered perhaps a hundred fifty thousand.
In practice
Italian partisans shot Mussolini in April forty-five.
Where people slip
Witness-built beyond the anchor's Balkans.
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