Italy today celebrates the 80th anniversary of its liberation. After two-and-a-half years, Italian partisans got rid of both the Nazi German former ally that had occupied half the country and ...

Meloni entered politics at age 15 as an activist in the youth section of the Movimento Sociale Italiano or MSI, a party created in 1946 by veterans of the Italian Social Republic as a home for ...

This so-called “Italian social republic” established by the Italian fascists existed from 1943 to 1945 under the military protection of Germany’s Nazi regime in northern Italy.

It was in the midst of this division between the Kingdom of Italy and the Italian Social Republic that Vatican City was bombed. According to Ferrara, Vatican Radio was the main target of the bombing.

It included men and women from different backgrounds: former political prisoners, disbanded soldiers, young men avoiding the draft of the Italian Social Republic, Catholics, communists, liberals ...

And the National Alliance was the latest iteration of a neo-fascist tradition which has roots in the Italian Social Movement (MSI) established by veterans of Mussolini’s Italian Social Republic ...

Following the deposing of Mussolini in 1943 and the kingdom's surrender to the Allies, Germany invaded northern Italy reestablished Mussolini as a puppet over the Italian Social Republic.

The war in Italy then descended into a near-stalemate as German and fascist troops with the Italian Social Republic—a satellite regime which sprang up after Mussolini was deposed—kept the ...

In 2020, when she was 43, she praised Giorgio Almirante, a civil minister in Mussolini’s Italian Social Republic who produced racist propaganda and co-founded the MSI, a neo-fascist political ...

The war in Italy then descended into a near-stalemate as German and fascist troops with the Italian Social Republic—a satellite regime which sprang up after Mussolini was deposed—kept the ...

80 years after liberation, Italian anti-fascists deserve more than solemn remembrance by Giorgio Fontana, opinion contributor - 04/25/25 11:30 AM ET ...