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Italy Surrendered Amidst Secrecy Turning Point 1943
In Sept 1943 Italy announced an armistice after covert talks led by Gen. Giuseppe Castellano with Allied forces. The surrender followed Allied landings in Sicily and a careful diplomatic sequence involving Badoglio, King Victor Emmanuel III, and Eisenhower. Rome fell under German occupation as the news spread.
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Rome
UPI
London
New York
Italy
Florence
Naples
Victor Emanuel Til
Pietro Badoglio
Adolf Hitler
Brenner Pass
Hitler
Normandy
Benito Mussolini
Badoglio
Sicily
Madrid
Lisbon
Giuseppe Castellano
Castellano
Samuel Hoare
Hoare
R. Campbell
du Bois
Dwight D. Fisenhower
Walter Bedell Smith
Bedell Smith
Churchill
Badolgio
Cassible
Syracuse
Sicilian
Badoglia
Camic
Redell Smith
Eisenhower
Strong
Lowell Rooks
Fisenhower
Castellani
Calabria