Gothic Line
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The Gothic Line was a German and Italian defensive line of the Italian Campaign of World War II. It formed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's last major line of defence along the summits of the northern part of the Apennine Mountains during the fighting retreat of the German forces in Italy against the Allied Armies in Italy, commanded by General Sir Harold Alexander.
German defensive positions in Northern Italy, 1944
By the end of 1944, the replacements made with troops of the U.S. 92nd Infantry Division (photo) and the Brazilian division, still hadn't covered the hole left by those diverted to Southern France.
A British M10 tank destroyer Self Propelled Gun (SPG) and infantrymen of the 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters during the advance to the Gothic Line, 27–28 August 1944.
Soldiers of the Polish II Corps inspect a captured German Panther tank somewhere along the Metauro River, August 1944.
Italian Social Republic
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The Italian Social Republic, known prior to December 1943 as the National Republican State of Italy, but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò, was a Nazi-German puppet state with limited diplomatic recognition that was created during the latter part of World War II. It existed from the beginning of the German occupation of Italy in September 1943 until the surrender of German troops in Italy in May 1945. The German occupation triggered widespread national resistance against it and the Italian Social Republic, leading to the Italian Civil War.
Benito Mussolini rescued by German troops from his prison in Campo Imperatore on 12 September 1943
Mussolini inspecting fortified positions, 1944
RSI soldiers, March 1944
RSI soldiers deployed to the Battle for Anzio