Modern era · 1943

Operation Achse

Operation Achse (German: Fall Achse, lit. 'Case Axis'), originally called Operation Alaric (Unternehmen Alarich), was the German operation to forcibly disarm the Italian armed forces after Italy's armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943.

Operation Achse
Operation Achse · Rieder, Fred, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
When
8 Sept 1943 – 19 Sept 1943
Where
Italy
Era
Modern

Topics

Before and after

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