Italy no surrender.

What if the wet dream of fanatic fascists had become true and in 1943,after the loss of Sicily, Italy had not ousted Mussolini and had not surrendered?
Germans and Social Repubblic fascists stopped (or slowed) the allied advanced until 1945; what would happen if ALL Kingdom of Italy (under Mussolini) had resisted?
Fascists said that if Italy had not surrendered,after the war the world (and the allied) would be respected more.
Is so?
 
What if the wet dream of fanatic fascists had become true and in 1943,after the loss of Sicily, Italy had not ousted Mussolini and had not surrendered?
Germans and Social Repubblic fascists stopped (or slowed) the allied advanced until 1945; what would happen if ALL Kingdom of Italy (under Mussolini) had resisted?
Fascists said that if Italy had not surrendered,after the war the world (and the allied) would be respected more.
Is so?

The war might grinf on a few months more, the problem is Italy didn't really have the manpower to significantly slow the Allied advance. They might be delayed a few moths due to Italy's difficult terrain but ultimately the Allies would have gotten through.
 
The problem here is that Italy is simply a sideshow after June 1944. I suspect that a stronger Italian showing would have allowed the Americans to have their way and lead to the front being shut down after Overlord. Perhaps Monte Casino wouldn't be flattened, mayhap Mark Clark wouldn't have his RomanTriumph;)

Its possible that the Italian divisions in the balkans would have allowed the Germans to focus more forces (10 - 15 divs, not sure on the exact number here) in the east or the west. But, I guess that the quality of these garrison troops would be dubious at best.
 
Italy not surrendering doesn't alter that the war will see the Germans bleeding the Allies in Italian mountains. It may, paradoxically, save some Jewish communities which IOTL were funneled into the gaping maw of Hitler's death camps, as if the Germans disregard Mussolini's wishes this not be done to Italians Mussolini will either be overthrown or shown to be powerless. That may, ironically, help his posthumous postwar reputation somewhat.
 
There wouldn't be the Resistance and civil war, too. Militarily, however, Italy was finished in summer 1943; the army should be rearmed and supported by the Germans to remain in working shape. If we are to stick to sheer numbers, in theory there were enough Italians to stop the Allies indefinitely at Cassino and the Gustav Line, and push into the sea or contain safely subsequent landings (Anzio). I think Italy not surrendering would last to the bitter end in May 1945; it would lose Gorizia and Trieste to Jugoslavia, South Tyrol to Austria, and likely Susa and Aosta to France, though.
 
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