8 September 1943After the fall of Benito Mussolini on 25 July 1943, the new government under Marshal Pietro Badoglio negotiates with the Allies. The armistice was signed on 3 September 1943 and announced on 8 September. On 10 September, the release of ‘nationals of an enemy state’ from the concentration camps (campi di concentramento) was decreed. Political internees and other ‘categories’ had already been released earlier. ‘Gypsies’ were disregarded and were therefore not yet released.
