SURRENDER TERMS SIGNED BY GERMANY’S EX ALLIES.

By the end of 1944, four of Germany’s Allies had abandoned her.

Here are the principal additional terms signed by Italy on September 29^th 1943 (for the terms signed on September 3^rd, and the conditions imposed on Rumania, Finland, and Bulgaria).

The following extracts from the 44 conditions, additional to those of September 3^rd 1943, signed by Italy on September 29^th 1943, are taken from White Paper Cmd. 6693 issued by H.M. Stationery Office ( 4d ) in November 1945.

1.     (a) The Italian Land, Sea and Air Forces wherever located hereby surrender unconditionally.

 (b) Italian participation in the war in all Theatres will cease immediately. There will be no opposition to landings, movements or other operations of the Land, Sea and Air Forces of the United Nations.

2.     The Italian Supreme Command will give full information concerning the disposition and condition of all Italian Land, Sea and Air Forces.

3.     The Italian Supreme Command will take the necessary measures to secure airfields, port facilities, and all other installations against seizure or attack by any of Italy’s Allies.

4.      Italian Land, Sea and Air Forces will within the periods to be laid down by the United Nations withdraw from all areas outside Italian Territory notified to the Italian Government by the United Nations …. All Italian officials will similarly leave the areas notified except any who may be permitted to remain by the United Nations.

Those permitted to remain will comply with the instructions of the Allied Commander in Chief.

5.     No requisitioning seizures or other coercive measures shall be affected by Italian Land, Sea and Air Forces or officials in regard to persons or property in the areas notified under Article 4.

7.     Italian warships of all descriptions , auxiliaries and transports  will be assembled as directed in ports to be specified by the Allied Commander in Chief and will be dealt with as prescribed by the Allied Commander in Chief

8.     Italian aircraft of all kinds will not leave the ground or water, or ships except as directed by the Allied Commander in Chief.

9.     All merchant ships, fishing or other craft of whatever flag, all aircraft and inland transport of whatever nationality in Italian or Italian occupied territory or waters will, pending verification of their identity and status, be prevented from leaving.

10.  The Italian Supreme Command will make available all information about naval, military and air devices, installations and defences, about all transport and inter communication systems established by Italy or her Allies on Italian territory or in the approaches thereto, about minefields or other obstacles to movement by land, sea or air and such other particulars at the United Nations may require.

Italian forces and equipment will be made available as required by the United Nations for the removal of the above mentioned obstacles.

13.        The manufacture, production and construction of war material and its import, export and transit is prohibited, except as directed by the United Nations

14.         (a) All Italian merchant shipping and fishing and other craft, wherever they may be and any constructed or completed during the period of the present instrument will be made available in good repair and in seaworthy condition by the competent Italian authorities at such places and for such purposes and periods as the United Nations may prescribe.

(b) All Italian inland transport and all port equipment will be held at the disposal of the United Nations for such purposes as they may direct.

                   15.   United Nations merchant ships, fishing and other craft in Italian hands wherever they may be ( including for this purpose those of any country which has broken off diplomatic relations with Italy) whether or not the title has been transferred as the result of prize court proceedings or otherwise will be surrendered to the United Nations …..

          The Italian Government will take the necessary measures to insure that the vessels and their cargo are not damaged.

16. The Italian authorities will conform to such measures for control and censorship of press and other publications, of theatrical and cinematograph performances, of broadcasting, and also of all forms of inter communication as the Allied Commander in Chief may direct.

17. The warships, auxiliaries, transports and merchant and other vessels and aircraft in the service of the United Nations will have the right freely to use the territorial waters around and the air over Italian territory.

18. The forces of the United Nations will require to occupy certain parts of Italian territory.

The territories or areas concerned will from time to time be notified by the United Nations, and all Italian Land, Sea, and Air Force will there upon withdraw from such territories or areas in accordance with the instructions issued by the Allied Commander in Chief.

19. In the territories or areas referred to in article 18, all Naval, Military and Air installations, power stations oil refineries, public utility services, all ports, and harbours, all transport and all inter communication installations, facilities and equipment and such other installations or facilities and all such stocks as may be required by the United Nations will be made available in good condition by the competent Italian authorities with the personnel required for working them.

The Italian Government will make available such other local resources or services as the United Nations may require.

20. Without prejudice to the provisions of the present instrument, the United Nations will exercise all the rights of an occupying power throughout the territories or areas referred to in article 18.

25.        (a) Relations with countries at war with any of the United Nations, or occupied by any such country, will be broken off.

(b) The United Nations reserve the right to require the withdrawal of neutral diplomatic and consular officers from occupied Italian territory.

29. Benito Mussolini, his Chief Fascist associates and all persons suspected of having committed war crimes or analogous offences whose names appear on lists to be communicated by the United Nations will forthwith be apprehended and surrendered into the hands of the United Nations.

30. ALL Fascist organizations, including all branches of the Fascist Militia (M.V.S.N.) the Secret Police (O.V.R.A.) will in so far as this is not already accomplished be disbanded in accordance with the directions of the Allied Commander in Chief.

31. All Italian laws involving discrimination on grounds of race, colour, creed or political opinions will in so far as this is not already accomplished be rescinded, and persons detained on such grounds will, as directed by the United Nations, be relieved from all legal disabilities to which they have been subjected.

32. (a) Prisoners of war belonging to the forces of or specified by the United Nations and any nationals, of the United Nations, including Abyssinian subjects, confined, interned, or otherwise under restraint in Italian or Italian occupied territory will not be removed and will forthwith be handed over to representatives  of the United Nations may direct.

(b) Persons of whatever nationality who have been placed under restriction detention or sentence ( including sentences in absentia )  on account of their dealings or sympathies with the United Nations will be released under the direction of the United Nations and relieved from all legal disabilities to which they have been subjected.

33. The Italian Government will comply with such directions as the United Nations may prescribe regarding restitutions, deliveries, services or payments by way of reparation and payment of the costs of occupation during the period of the present instrument.

34. The Italian Government will carry out during the period of the present instrument such measures of disarmament.