Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Marco Maria Aterrano
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/282
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 180-195 File size 131 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2016-282009
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The article seeks to analyze the political strategies adopted by the Badoglio and Bonomi cabinets to limit Allied interference into the government’s daily practice during the wartime occupation of Italy, and to break free of what was perceived as a strict institutional control imposed by the Allied occupying forces. The Italian attempt to recover spaces of autonomy took place in two areas, namely the reconstruction of a functioning administrative machine in the occupied regions and the implementation of an independent diplomatic action. The author moves the narrative focus on the perception - the occupied’s rather than the occupants’ - of the Allied presence, and on the Italian response to serious overlapping of powers that was determined by the "troubled coexistence". Giving preference to unorthodox policies contradicting the terms of surrender and often in direct conflict with the Allied directives, in fact, the Italian governments were moving towards the retrieval of institutional prerogatives both on a local and international level, taking advantage of the obvious disagreements between the three victorious powers.
Keywords: Allied Occupation of Italy; Administrative Policy; Badoglio Government; Second World War; Diplomatic Reintegration; Institutional Control
Marco Maria Aterrano, L’occupazione angloamericana vissuta dai governi italiani, 1943-1944 Una difficile coesistenza in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 282/2016, pp 180-195, DOI: 10.3280/IC2016-282009