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Partisan Brigades

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Prime Minister Badoglio and the king were culturally and politically opposed to a war of the people, and tried to neutralize the Resistance. However, after the liberation of Rome (June 1944), the monarchy and CLNAI struck an uneasy truce.  Badoglio resigned, and a new government formed that was inclusive of all the parties.

The effectiveness of the CLNAI gained Allied praise as noted in the following Allied field officer report:

“Assistance to the Italian partisans has paid a good dividend. The toll of bridges blown, locomotives derailed, odd Germans eliminated, small groups of transport destroyed or captured, small garrisons liquidated, factories demolished, mounts week by week. The Germans nerves are so strained, their unenviable administrative situation taxed so much further, that large bodies of German and Italian Republican troops are constantly tied down in an effort to curtail partisan activity. Occasionally pitched battles have been fought, with losses to the enemy comparable to those they might suffer in a full-scale Allied attack."