How do we get occupation zones in Italy after WWII

Valdemar II

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Well I was thinking how do we get Italy split in different occupation zones after the War and whom would get a zone?
 
Have Italy fight to the end instead of switching sides in 1943; maybe by landing in France in 1943 and somehow having the Allies succeed. This could lead to a french zone in Piedmont/Lombardia, a Soviet zone in Veneto and Friuli if the soviets were fast enought and the angloamericans splitting the rest.
 

Cook

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Have Italy fight to the end instead of switching sides in 1943...

Not necessarily. When Marshal Badoglio broadcast to the Italian people that they had signed an armistice with the Allies and Italy had withdrawn from the war he omitted to say that Italy was then at war with Germany. This cause chaos with some Italian army units disbanding, some surrendering to the allies and others surrendering to the Germans. There were also units that continued fighting alongside the Germans and some that fought against them.

Having plunged Italy into this state of chaos Badoglio and the king then fled Rome for the safety of the south where the Italian government and Royalist army were slowly established. It was this government that became initially a co-belligerent and then, with Churchill’s help, an ally.

If Badoglio and the king had been captured or killed before they were able to reach the allied lines Italy would never have been more than a defeated Axis power; one whose troops had fought both the Anglo-Americans and the Soviets. It would have been natural for Italy to be divided into occupied zones as per Germany and Austria.

The idea of a Soviet occupation zone would not have been unwelcome to many of the partisans fighting in the north in the last year of the war.
 
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Well, the essential thing to look at is that this is unlikely to alter the Soviet advance in the East. From this we therefore can say that it is unlikely that the Soviets will have a full occupation zone in Italy, as they reached Ljubljana 5 days after the Anglo-Americans reached Trieste IOTL, and even if the Allied advance in Italy is slowed, we can speculate on the opening of another front from France or some other such situation that would make up the difference.

However, I consider it likely that Rome gets split a la Berlin and Vienna, that Yugoslavia will get Trieste and that South Tyrol might be given back to the Austrians.

Perhaps something like this? US gets Sicily, the South and Lazio, France occupies South Tyrol (with mind that it gets added to Austria), Piedemont, Lombardy and Liguria, while Britain occupies Venezia, Tuscany, Romagna and a bit ot territory that ensures that the Swiss aren't completely surrounded by French occupied territory.

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