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| |p1 = French Third Republic |flag_p1 = Flag of France.svg |s1 = Provisional Government of the French Republic |flag_s1 = Flag of France.svg | |stat_year1 = |stat_area1 = |stat_pop1 = |footnotes = }} Italian-occupied France was an area of south-eastern France occupied by Fascist Italy in two stages during World War II. The occupation lasted from June 1940 until the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces on September 8, 1943, when Italian troops on French soil retreated under pressure from the Germans. ==Italian occupation== The initial Italian occupation of France territory occurred in June 1940; it was then expanded in November 1942. The German offensive against the Low Countries and France began on 10 May and by the middle of May was on French soil. By the start of June, the British were evacuating from the pocket in Northern France. On 10 June 1940, Italy declared war against the French and British. Ten days later, the Italian army invaded France. During the fighting, the Italians lost 631 men killed and 2,631 wounded, with an additional 616 reported missing. A further 2,151 men were stricken by frostbite during the campaign. French losses amounted to 229 casualties. On 24 June 1940, after the Fall of France, Italy and France signed the Franco-Italian Armistice, two days after the Second Armistice at Compiegne between France and Germany, agreeing upon an Italian zone of occupation. This initial zone of occupation was 832 km² and contained 28,500 inhabitants.〔Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt. ''Germany and the Second World War – Volume 2: Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe'', pg. 311〕 The largest town contained within the initial Italian zone of occupation was Menton, annexed officially to the Kingdom of Italy.〔 The main city inside the "demilitarized zone" of 50 km from the former border with the Italian Alpine Wall 〔(The Fortifications of the Alpine Wall )〕 was Nice.〔(Photos of Italian occupation of Nice )〕 In November 1942, in conjunction with ''Case Anton'', the German occupation of most of Vichy France, the Royal Italian Army (''Regio Esercito'') expanded its occupation zone. Italian forces took control of Toulon and all of Provence up to the river Rhône, with the island of Corsica (claimed by the Italian irredentists). Nice and Corsica were to be annexed to Italy (as had happened in 1940 with Menton), in order to fulfil the aspirations of Italian irredentists (including local groups such as the Nizzardo Italians and the Corsican Italians).〔(Unredeemed Italy (Google Book) )〕 But this was not done because of the Italian surrender to the Allies in September 1943 when the Germans took over the Italian occupation zones. The area of south-east France actually occupied by the Italians has been disputed. A study of the postal history of the region has cast new light on the part of France controlled by the Italians and the Germans.(Trapnell, 2014). By studying mail that had been censored by the occupying power, this study showed that the Italians occupied the eastern part up to a "line" joining Toulon - Gap - Grenoble - Chambery - Annecy - Geneva. Places occupied by the Italians west of this were few or transitory, the German holding the power here.〔"The postal history of the two-phased Italian occupation of south-east France 1940-1943" Monograph publ. France & Colonies Philatelic Society (GB)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Italian occupation of France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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