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As the ''Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale'' ([[MVSN]], also known as "[[Black Shirts]]") was disbanded by the terms of the armistice, the ''[[Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana]]'' was formed on 24 November 1943 out of [[carabinieri]], ex-army, and others still loyal to the [[fascist]] cause. |
As the ''Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale'' ([[MVSN]], also known as "[[Black Shirts]]") was disbanded by the terms of the armistice, the ''[[Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana]]'' was formed on 24 November 1943 out of [[carabinieri]], ex-army, and others still loyal to the [[fascist]] cause. |
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The Black Brigades were formed out the members of the Fascist Republican Party, with law dated 30 |
The Black Brigades were formed out the members of the Fascist Republican Party, with a law dated 30 June 1944. They not only fought the [[Allies]], and Italian [[partisans]], but also fought against and murdered their political opponents and others whose support of "the cause" was less than exuberant. Many were killed in the fighting. |
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The Black Brigades were not actually brigade sized units, they were in reality only weak battalions or strong companies with 200 to 300 personnel each. There were 41 territorial brigades numbered one through 41, and there were eight mobile brigades, these were numbered one through seven plus the Second [[Arditi]] Brigade. Although they wore the standard Italian army uniform they tended to only wear a black sweater with the grey-green uniform pants and their badge or insignia was the jawless [[death's head]]. |
The Black Brigades were not actually brigade sized units, they were in reality only weak battalions or strong companies with 200 to 300 personnel each. There were 41 territorial brigades numbered one through 41, and there were eight mobile brigades, these were numbered one through seven plus the Second [[Arditi]] Brigade. Although they wore the standard Italian army uniform they tended to only wear a black sweater with the grey-green uniform pants and their badge or insignia was the jawless [[death's head]]. |
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Revision as of 09:57, 4 October 2005
Black Brigades (Italian: Brigate Nere) were one of the fascist paramilitary groups operating in Italian Social Republic (in northern Italy), during the final years of World War II, and after the signing of the Italian Armistice in 1943.
Benito Mussolini had been arrested after the Grand Fascist Council, with the support of King Vittorio Emanuele III, overthrew him and began negotiations with the Allies for Italy's withdrawal from the war. Mussolini was rescued by German paratroopers and installed as the President of the Italian Social Republic, a regime nominally administering the German-occupied northern Italy.
As the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (MVSN, also known as "Black Shirts") was disbanded by the terms of the armistice, the Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana was formed on 24 November 1943 out of carabinieri, ex-army, and others still loyal to the fascist cause.
The Black Brigades were formed out the members of the Fascist Republican Party, with a law dated 30 June 1944. They not only fought the Allies, and Italian partisans, but also fought against and murdered their political opponents and others whose support of "the cause" was less than exuberant. Many were killed in the fighting.
The Black Brigades were not actually brigade sized units, they were in reality only weak battalions or strong companies with 200 to 300 personnel each. There were 41 territorial brigades numbered one through 41, and there were eight mobile brigades, these were numbered one through seven plus the Second Arditi Brigade. Although they wore the standard Italian army uniform they tended to only wear a black sweater with the grey-green uniform pants and their badge or insignia was the jawless death's head.
