Figure 1.--This is a scene from Naples after the Amerivans entered the city. The American press caption read, "The Jig’s Up: Three cringing fascist generals are faced with a revengeful mob who are out to kill them for the part they played in helping the Germans defend Naples against the Allies. The Generals -- Radice, Carlino, Salla -- are rescued by the Carabinieri and removed into the Municipio with great difficulty in this scene which represents the first open revolt of the people against their fascist leaders since our invasion of Sicily. The three Italian Generals were in charge of the defense of Naples." The photograoh was dated October 11, 1943. Noting like this ioccurred in Germanyb against wither the milkitarybor NAZI officials.

The NAZIs when they seized control of Germany, were not a majority party, but they were the largest political party in Germanyn with some right-wing allies. They were a minority party, but with a substantial, fervent following. The Fascist Party in Italy was an even smaller party than the NAZI Party and never approavched the NAZIs in the level of popular support. The Fascists only dominated Italian politics by the March on Rome with a small number of Black Shirts. Inlike the NAZIs they were not a nmakor political party. Then they began murdering oposition figures and outlawing other parties. Mussolini was a forceful leader and attracted some support, but he never had a hold on the Italian people like Hitler was able to forge in Germany. Thus after entering the War, the Italians experiences one loss after another. The battlegfield performance of the Italian Army was in poart an indicator of the lack of commument by the Itlainan people to Fascism. Fascist propaganda attempted to hide the battlefield losses, but what could not be hidden was was food shortages and the deteriorating living conditions as well as the Allied bombing. Mussolini's popularity plummeted and was duinally even renoved by the Fascist Grand Couincil. The difference between the NAZIs and Fascists became manifest at the end of the War. Of course Mussolini's body was strug up in a Milan Plaza which the Fascists had previously used to display dead bodies of anti-Fascists. Vengeful mobs or kanagaroo courts executed some 30,000 Fascists (estimates vary), mostly in northern Italy where the Facists with German support made their last stand. The Partisans were involved in this, but it was not all their work. In Germany there were no vengeful mobs killing NAZIs. Most NAZIs were blended into post-War society. The De-NAZIfication effort was conducted by the Allies, not the German Government. Many Grmans at the time saw the process as vengeful Allied actions.

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