Italy occupied by Allies 1944-?

In OTL Italy jumped the Nazi ship and came over to the Allied flotilla in 1943 after the Allies had already liberated Sicily and the British had landed on the Italian peninsula itself. Being an Allied nation spared Italy from post-war Allied occupation (mostly) (but not wartime Nazi German occupation). However, what if Italy had resolutely stayed with Germany til the bitter end in 1945? Being Germany's main partner in crime, might not Italy too be divided into occupation zones and occupied by the Allies?
How would such zones look? Would the Soviets get a zone?
 
Sean Swaby said:
In OTL Italy jumped the Nazi ship and came over to the Allied flotilla in 1943 after the Allies had already liberated Sicily and the British had landed on the Italian peninsula itself. Being an Allied nation spared Italy from post-war Allied occupation (mostly) (but not wartime Nazi German occupation). However, what if Italy had resolutely stayed with Germany til the bitter end in 1945? Being Germany's main partner in crime, might not Italy too be divided into occupation zones and occupied by the Allies?
How would such zones look? Would the Soviets get a zone?
Don't forget in Italy we had the third partisan movement in Europe after the USSR and Jugoslavia. There would be any Resistenza in this scenario?
In Italian Resistenza three were the main players in the rebel movement.
1) The Brigate Garibaldi, tied to the Communist Party (of strict Muscovite-Stalinist observance at that time), but composed by many non-Communists and even Catholics. Some of them would fight even in this scenario, and their number would grow with the bitter end approaching.
2) The ex-military ("Badogliani", "azzurri") loyal to the King, who in this scenario would not rebel, though I think many would simply surrender to the Allies once on thebattlefield, to shorten the war and avoid further damage to the motherland.
3) The Antifascist post-Jacobine Brigate Giustizia e Libertà (GL), liberal-socialists, probably the more consequent enemies of fascism, and totalitarianism in general. They would try something, maybe, in the last weeks, not before. In OTL they were the first to climb up to the mountains in Piedmont after the Italian surrender.
There were even Socialist and Catholic minor groups.
All in all, without an Italian surrender, we would have no real Resistenza agianst Nazi-Fascism, unless people begins to desert the army seeing this as apointless wr agianst the wrong enemy. In that case, masses of deserters would go to the muntains, cling around the Commmunists and GL and fight to the death.

As for the nation, in case it didn't surrender (impossible, however), an unopposed round-the-clock rain of death on every major city would be likely.
That is: if it was not on the 8th of September, it could be the 8th of October, same thing.
 
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