Why did Italy FLIP Sides in WW2? | Animated History

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It’s a huge meme, but no one goes in Depth into the civil war and political battles of late war Italy. Thank you for all your videos.

As an Italian i Just wanna thank you for talking about italian resistence also because my grampa was a partigiano Who Fought during the Battle of naple where he was killed while saving his friends May he rest in peace😔

I think it’s also partially of Victor Emmanuel being cautious with power, because at the point of time prior to Mussolini’s removal, Mussolini had political capital and power. If the king acted, he might be deposed, and likelier than not, Mussolini would consolidate any remaining power there is. The king was by convention (though can legally exercise discretionary powers) a figurehead.

Man, I really wish there were some more perspectives on ww2. for example, Czechoslovakia and Denmark or Norway. I know they weren't too significantly important but there's still some vast history behind their entrance into the war and I really think it should be explained the way griffin explains it. Again, keep up the good work with these videos.

Good to see your channel back rolling after everything that happend!

I am amazed by how high quality your videos are. AND YET YOU STILL POST EVERY 1-2 WEEKS! IT'S AMAZING KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Everybody makes fun of Italy for switching sides, but at least they weren't the ones whose infrastructure was completely decimated and leveled from allied strategic bombing campaigns and ceased to be a unified country for almost half a century.

Germany: Ok ain’t no way Italy gonna fight our occupation and somehow win. Italian Partisans: Breathes

You are perfectly working with details. Mussolini was really killed by french gun MAS-38 and in the video is really MAS-38!

Also i recommend to read about this period, the novels "Men Against" of Elio Vittorini and "The Path To The Nest Of Spiders" of Italo Calvino. They speak about partisans in northern Italy, and they were written by writers which were part of the resistance, and wrote them during the civil war itself. The seocnd in particular can be readen also by very young readers, because is a sweet, adventure story about a kid, which join the resistance, after he steal the gun of a german commander, which ishis sister's boyfriend.

Watching this video explains in such a great way what's just reduced as a whole joke or meme. My grandma still remembers these events despite being between 12-17 when the War happened, especially during the 1943 Allied bombing runs and in 1944 when the Germans seized our family pharmacy and house to transform it into a small army outpost and weapons depot.

my granddad (on my mum's side) was a Carabiniere in Rome who was arrested by the Germans then narrowly escaped before being taken away, likely to the Fosse Ardeatine massacre mentioned in the video. He eventually made his way south and hid in the Certosa di Trisulti convent until the allies liberated the area, after which he would join the resistance and infiltrate the Carabinieri of Savona, who had by now been purged of any monarchist sympathies and replaced with fascist fanatics. He'd spend the rest of the war passing on local intel to the Allies. He'd end up paying for his service as about a decade and a half after the war he'd be once again reassigned to Savona, only to find out that many of the fascists were still in their posts or had even managed to secure a few promotions. By now they knew he had been a snitch, my grandfather's carreer would be left dead in the water as he'd get passed over for promotion and then forced into an early retirement by the end of the century. In a way i guess he was still luckier than my other granddad, who had lost his father to allied bombings and would spend most of the civil war in a POW camp in Poland

Your animations are literally movies at this point pls keep it up your actually the best history youtuber

Italy switched sides because they remembered the German betrayal at Teutoburg Forest

I always love it when little known historical periods are touched on. And this one deserved to be mentioned. Nice video.

at 18:00, there is Bella Ciao playing in the background. It's just so beautiful, but tragic alike

The partisans both in France, The Netherlands and Italy were always under represented in my history classes, I always wonder if it has to do with the fact that they were usually socialist or communist

sad about the discord, yet you and your team still pump out great videos. Hope you succeed in fixing the problem with the hackers.

I must say that this video went into more details into the civil war than what was taught when I attended high school in Italy. It is also good to remind people that behind the memes of switching sides when the tide turned, a lot of blood was shed and life lost, and countless of brave people had to live for months under the terror of the brutal Nazi occupation.