Passato e Presente

Season 1, Episode 35

Episode Title: September 1943: an Army in Disarray

Air Date: 2017-11-29

Overview:

Episode dedicated to the Italian WWII armistice on September 8, 1943: from the negotiations started after Allied landing in Sicily, through Operation Alaric (the Nazi occupation of the Italian peninsula) and the provisions on how to react to the probable German retaliation after the armistice, which however were never officially given, leaving the Italian commands on their own without orders.