"from Sep. 1943" . "* German Army in Italysurrenders" . "civil war resulted" . "1943-09-08" . . . "civil war" . . . "Civil War" . . . . . "520,000" . "Disbanded" . "German occupation of Northern Italy during World War II" . "Italian Civil War during WWII" . . . "* Liberation of Italy fromFascism" . . . "Royal Italian and Italian Resistance victory" . "descended into civil war until the end of hostilities" . "Italian Civil War" . . "from 1943" . . . "Italian civil war" . . . "bloody civil war" . . . . "Supported by:" . "Division" . . "* Collapse of theItalian Social Republic" . . . "Koch Band" . . "a civil war" . . "*ExecutionofBenito Mussolini" . "battling what remained of the fascist state structures and the slowly diminishing military effectiveness of Mussolini\u2019s German backers" . "Italian Resistance" . . "Italian Civil War" . . . "Italian Civil War" . . "Italy became a critical battleground" . . .