Surrender of Caserta
The surrender of Caserta (
Although British
General Rodolfo Graziani, the Minister of Defense of the RSI (Repubblica Sociale Italiana, the Italian fascist regime), was also present at Caserta to discuss the surrender of all Italian RSI forces in Northern Italy.
Owing in part to Allied air attacks, the German forces in Italy had received no supplies from Germany since the first week of April.[3] Since Allied aircraft had destroyed all bridges across the Po river, the Germans abandoned their heavy weapons and motor vehicles south of it during the Allied spring offensive.[4][5] What was left of the German infantry was mostly wiped out during the fighting.[5] The remaining troops had retreated across the Po using improvised transports and were reorganized by blocking detachments to man the front line and fight on, but without arms their situation was hopeless.[5]
References
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- ISBN 978-0349119120.
- ^ a b Frieser 2007, p. 1161.
- ^ Frieser 2007, p. 1158.
- ^ Frieser 2007, p. 1156.
- ^ a b c Frieser 2007, p. 1159.
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