Włoska Republika Socjalna jako przykład faszystowskiego bytu polityczno-wojskowego w latach 1943–1945
The Italian Social Republic as an Example of Fascist Political and Military Creation in the Years 1943–1945

Summary/Abstract: The Italian Social Republic (also known as Republic of Salo) was a fascist puppet state under the protection of the Third Reich that was created in the last years of World War II. With Benito Mussolini as the formal leader, it existed from the beginning of German occupation of Italy in September 1943 until the surrender of Wehrmacht in northern Italy by the end of April 1945. The aim of the article is to analyse the politics, propaganda, state and party institutions, as well as various military and paramilitary formations of the RSI, which fought along German troops against the allied forces on the Italian front. Furthermore, another mentioned subject will be that of the so-called Italian Civil War in that period, a brutal fratricidal conflict, in which the Italian Resistance (mostly communist partisans) and the Italian Co-Belligerent Army joined the allies in order to eventually defeat Axis forces and to liberate the country. The Italian Social Republic existed for slightly more than nineteen months, until on 28 April 1945 the partisans shot Mussolini and several other fascists while they were attempting to save their lives and escape from Italy.

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