One month after Fascismo's downfall the people of Italy still cried: "Pace! Pace!" But now they could not have peace. Their peninsula had become a battlefield, Air bombardment shattered its cities, lashed refugees over its countryside. Up the boot's length the Germans would probably fight a hard delaying action before an Allied invasion army. Up in the boot's flaps, perhaps in the strategic Po Valley, perhaps in the mountain passes to the Rhone and Danube
Basins, the Germans would probably make a stand. Where would the Italians stand?
Giustizia e Liberia, the underground...