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The signing ceremony began at 14:00 on 3 September. Castellano and Bedell Smith signed the accepted text on behalf of Badoglio and General Eisenhower, respectively. The armistice includes that all Italian land, air, and naval forces must cease hostilities against the Allies. A bombing mission on Rome
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to contact Allied diplomats. However, to open the proceedings, the Allies had to determine who was the most authoritative envoy, and the three generals had started to quarrel about who had the highest authority. In the end, Castellano was admitted to speak with the Alliesat the British Embassy to set
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An agreement between the Allies and the Italians in late September provided for some of the Navy to be kept in commission; however, the battleships were to be reduced to care and maintenance and effectively disarmed. Italian mercantile marine vessels were to operate under the same general conditions
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On 2 September, Castellano set off again to Cassibile with an order to confirm the acceptance of the Allied conditions. He had no written authorization from Badoglio, the head of the Italian government, who wanted to dissociate himself as much as possible from the forthcoming defeat of his country.
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Only after the signing had taken place was Castellano passed the long terms contained in the "Instrument of Surrender of Italy.", which General Campbell had presented to another Italian general, Zanussi in Lisbon. Zanussi, who had also been in Cassibile since 31 August, for unclear reasons had not
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The day the armistice entered into force was linked to a planned landing in central Italy and was left to the Allies' discretion. Castellano still understood that the date was intended to be 12 September, and Badoglio started to move troops to Rome.
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Badoglio still considered it possible to gain favourable conditions in exchange for the surrender. He ordered Castellano to insist that any surrender of Italy be conditioned on a landing of Allied troops on the Italian mainland. The Allies held only
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The Navy's turnover proceeded more smoothly in other areas of Italy. When an Allied naval force headed for the large naval base of Taranto, it watched a flotilla of Italian ships sailing out of Taranto Harbour towards their surrender at Malta.
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into airports around the city. Badoglio told the delegation that his army was not ready to support the landing and that most airports in the area were under German control. He asked for a deferral of the armistice of a few days. When General
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until July 1943). There was a danger that some of the Navy might fight on, be scuttled, or (most concerningly for the Allies) end up in German hands. As such, the truce called for Italian warships on Italy's west coast, mostly at
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The Allies failed to take full advantage of the Italian armistice and were quickly checked by German troops. In terrain that favoured defence, the Allied forces took 20 months to reach the northern borders of Italy.
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informed Castellano about them. Nevertheless, Bedell Smith explained to Castellano that the other conditions would have taken effect only if Italy had not taken on a fighting role in the war alongside the Allies.
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On 7 September, a small Allied delegation reached Rome to inform Badoglio that the next day would have been the day of the armistice. He was also informed about the pending arrival of the American
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and his Fascist officials must be handed over the United Nations, and all Italian land, air, and naval forces must surrender unconditionally. The armistice signed at Malta was considered the
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sank with the loss of nearly 1,400 men. Most of the remaining ships made it safely to North Africa "while three destroyers and a cruiser which had stopped to rescue survivors, docked in
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learned that, the landing in Rome of American troops was cancelled, but the day of the armistice was confirmed since other troops were already en route by sea to land in southern Italy.
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Although, the Armistice of Cassibile signed at Sicily was considered the 'shorter' version of the whole armistice. On 29 September. The longer version of the armistice was signed at
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on 12 September. The Italian forces were forcefully disbanded in the north and centre of the country, with most of Italy being occupied by the Germans, who established a
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The appointment of Badoglio did not change the position of Italy as Germany's ally in the war. However, many channels sought a peace treaty with the Allies. Meanwhile,
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In other cases, individual Italian units, mostly more minor, remained loyal to the Axis powers. Many of the units formed the nucleus of the armed forces of the puppet
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for United Kingdom, Giuseppe Castellano for Italy, Walter Bedell Smith for US, and Franco Montanari, the Italian interpreter for Castellano, at Cassibile, Sicily.
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When the armistice was announced by Allied radio on the afternoon of 8 September, German forces immediately attacked Italian forces by executing
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On 27 August, General Castellano returned to Italy and, three days later, briefed Badoglio about the Allied request for a meeting to be held in
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Armistice with Italy: Employment and Disposition of Italian Fleet and Merchant Marine (Cunningham-de Courten Agreement) 23 September 1943
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led by Mussolini. The king, the Italian government and most of the Navy fled to southern Italy under the protection of the Allies. An
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by 500 airplanes was stopped at the last moment and had been Eisenhower's inducement to accelerate the procedure of the armistice.
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In the spring of 1943, preoccupied with the disastrous situation of the Italian military during the war, the Italian dictator,
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against Italy after the signing. In return, he received only vague promises, including launching a parachute division over
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after it had resisted German forces. A similar fate awaited 103 Italian officers of the 50th Infantry Division
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Robert Wallace & the editors of Time-Life Books, The Italian Campaign, Time-Life Books Inc, 1978. p. 57
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That evening Castellano met with Allied officers to discuss what the Italian Government should do. General
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between Italy and the Allies. It was signed by Badoglio and Eisenhower, aboard the British battleship HMS
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as the Allies. In all cases, the Italian vessels would retain their Italian crews and fly Italian flags.
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The following day, Castellano was received by Badoglio and his entourage. Italy's Foreign Minister,
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On the afternoon of the same day, Badoglio had a briefing with the senior commanders of the
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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Terms of the Armistice with Italy; September 3, 1943
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To ease communication between the Allies and the Italian government, a captured British
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for Italy, the armistice's signing took place at a summit in an Allied military camp at
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in early October 1943 after the Germans captured the island. Only on the islands of
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and other Allied staffs looking on, in the Fairfield military camp in Cassibile.
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himself, proposed the vague possibility of succeeding Mussolini as dictator.
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and Badoglio, fled Rome on the early morning of the 9th and took shelter in
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To help the execution of his plan, the King asked for the assistance of
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that the armistice had been signed "without amendments of any kind".
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was sent to the Allies. The message, however, was intercepted by the
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Una nazione allo sbando: l'armistizio italiano del settembre 1943
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Some of the Italian troops based outside Italy, in the occupied
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A Nation in Disarray: The Italian Armistice of September 1943
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by the Italians but for the Allies. It was considered as the
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Supplemented by memorandum of agreement of September 23, 1943
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signing the armistice on behalf of Badoglio, with General
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On 3 September, British and Canadian troops crossed the
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General Giuseppe Castellano shaking hands with General
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Allied and Italian representatives from left to right:
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