Passato e Presente — Season 1, Episode 35: September 1943: an Army in Disarray

Episode synopsis

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.

About Passato e Presente

Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Defeat of the Dardanelles
• E2Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
• E3The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
• E4Duce and America
• E5Charlemagne
• E6Caporetto: Before the Battle
• E7Battle Name: Lenin
• E8Italian Prisoners of the Allies
• E9Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
• E10Caporetto: the Battle
• E11Tucci, Duce's Explorer
• E12Anne Frank, a Denied Memory