The Italian Social Republic had existed for slightly more than one and a half years.

The Italian Social Republic had similar roles for women.

The Italian Social Republic was a German puppet state.

The Italian Social Republic was proclaimed on 18 September, with Mussolini as both head of state and prime minister.

The Italian Social Republic later converted it into a deportation camp for Jews between October 1943 and June 1944.

The Italian Social Republic was headquartered in the town of Salò, and is commonly known as the Republic of Salo.

The Italian Social Republic, located in the areas of northern Italy occupied by Germany, reformed the MVSN into the Republican National Guard (Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana, or GNR).

The Italian Social Republic (1943-1945, known also as the Republic of Salò) - General Pietro Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel III withdrew Italy from the Axis Powers and moved the government in southern Italy, already conquered by the Allies.

He set up a fascist rump state, the Republic of Salo, based at Lake Garda in northern Italy.

Following the collapse of the Republic of Salo an Italian resistance movement tribunal discharged Ricci after deciding that his force was simply an internal police.

The Republic of Salo fought alongside Hitler, and had they won, it would have meant dictatorship in Italy and the rest of Europe.

However, after the Allies landed in southern Italy and fascism retreated to the Republic of Salo, Crocetta found itself again in the crossfire.

The Italian Social Republic was headquartered in the town of Salò, and is commonly known as the Republic of Salo.

"Liberator," a 1944 poster from the Republic of Salo, Mussolini's final holdout, shows a black pilot pounding a bombed-out Italian city with his bare fist.

But he was released from captivity by a daring German raid and installed as the head of a rump fascist state known as the Republic of Salo, in northern Italy.

Under the circumstances, the order of Mussolini's puppet government of the Republic of Salo, at the end of November, decreeing that all Italian Jews were enemy aliens, might seem anomalous.

The title, Salo, refers to a short-lived period in Italys past: the Republic of Salo, based in the town of the same name, which existed in the final years of World War II.

During the Second World War, he fought in France, Libya and Yugoslavia and after the Kingdom of Italy joined the allies, he became the chief of the general staff to Graziani in the Republic of Salo.

A romantic version of the Republic of Salo - as noble loyalists to a lost cause - and a new critical view of the partisan struggle have already seeped into the popular media, said Massimo Salvadori, a historian at the University of Turin.