Why did Italy switch sides in WW2?

Italy never changed side in WW2, Italy was divided into two sides and fascists stay in Axis side and anti fascists joined Allied, that's all.

Italy: His capitol was taken, people no longer support war, starts a civil war, north Italy was under facist control and fights against the restored monarchy Everyone: LoL iTaLy chAnGed SidEs Meanwhile Romania, Finland and Bulgaria are not judged

Mussolini's Italy was still allied with Germany in the North. While the Italian Republic allied with the Allies and fought against the Axis. They never really switched, but were divided ideologically.

I don't think it hurt that the Allies landed in the areas where Fascism had the least support.

8:41 Corsica is italian,sardinia is French ?

Spoiler: it didn’t, the situation was far more complicated than that

Italy was divided in two sides Random meme kids: Italy switch sides brrrr

I heard that the invasion of Greece was the mistake of the Italian "General" Sebastiano Visconti Prasca who, being unable to command a larger unit than the garrison he was given because of his rank, didn't wait for reinforcements because it would have passed the glory to another higher ranking general. So he attacked with troops wo were supposed to be a border garrison in case of a Greek preemptive strike and lost (that's why he attacked before the due date)

My great grandfather fought off the Italians in Greece.

What I find funny is that what Italy did also happened in any other conquered/occupied/liberated country in Europe. Finland switched sides 3 times during the war, are we gonna say the Finns "betrayed" somebody?

Everyone seems to ignore that Italy was under a dictatorship with Mussolini.

Allies: Destroyes half of italian infrastructures in Sicily and kill civilians with bombing the cities (specifically "civilian targets") Italian army: Tired from a campaign ruled by incompetent leaders, who sent soldiers against tanks, with only bolt action and granades. With a quarter of the forces died outside of Stalingrad and Kirow for support the German invasion. Italian government: Kicks out Mussolini from his charge, arrest him, and electing Badoglio as the head of the state, who actually still fought the Allies for 4 months The king with his loyal politicians: Proposes an armistice to the Allies once arrived to Naples, and declaring Italy no more in conflict. Since now it should be a neutral country. Germany: Invades Italy from the north with Wehrmarcht divisions, set free Mussolini from his prison and creates a new puppet government "Italian social republic" for fight the Allies The Allies: Creates their own Italian puppet state with Badoglio in charge Italian civilians: Start a multiple revolution through all the Italian territories for the 20 years of fascist dictatorship that suppressed any political resistance since 1925 Internet: Italy switch sides

Roman kingdom: beta version 0.1 SPQR: final release 1.0 The Roman empire: Complete collection pack Mussolini's wannabe shitpire: Activision and Ea colloboration for the disappointing sequel

When Bulgaria and Romania actually switch sides, but Italy who just divided its country gets all the memes

I'm more curious about the reason why america switched side from the kurds and then switched again

Because it was over. Italy was wise to switch sides. The Axis were doomed from the very beginning of 1942. It was only a question of when not if the Allies would win due to logistics, manpower and the amount of territory. The prolonged fighting of Germany and Japan only insured more retaliation and ruin upon their countries. Italy gets a lot of flak for quitting but they were the only major Axis power to prevent a lot of destruction on their own country and survived relatively intact compared to Germany and Japan.

My grandfather fought under Mussolini in the greco-Italo war and also fought in the Egyptian campaign. He actually lost a finger during the Greco-Italo battle.

Let me get this straight: Italy declares defeat and surrenders, proclaiming their army has been knocked out of the war and thus can't keep the fighting going on --> Germany attacks and occupies the italian surrendering territory/starts to apply deportation in their concentration camps against the Italian soldiers and civilians who didn't wanna fight for them--> "iTaLy SwItChEd SiDeS" Like, wtf? Italy was the one who was attacked by its former ally. They didn't switch sides, they didn't "backstab" the Germans, and most importantly, *they didn't attack first*. Germany did. The Italians had to defend themselves against the Germans, who had established a puppet state in Northern/Central Italy. Italy had to fight a new war started by the Germans AND a civil war in the meantime. If anything, Germany betrayed Italy, not the other way around.

People: making fun of Italy switching sides saying it’s a coward move Also people: forgetting that we were never prepared to go to war and that we were tired of Mussolini to the point partisans killed him and had to hang him by his foots to not getting his corpse sfigurated

Just to add another piece of information, one of the strongest reasons why a large part of the Italian army will not remain loyal to the Germans is due to the attitude of the Germans towards the Italians throughout the war, which was certainly not what you would expect from a ally.