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    After Mussolini was voted out of office on 25 July 1943, on the orders of the king he was arrested by the

    Carabinieri as he left the king's private residence in Rome and subsequently imprisoned on Campo Imperatore by
    Carabinieri forces. After the armistice between Italy and the Allies on 3 September 1943 and the country's split
    into the fascist Italian Social Republic in the north and the Kingdom of Italy in the south, the Carabinieri split into
    two groups. In southern Italy the Carabinieri Command for Liberated Italy was founded in Bari, mobilizing new
    units for the Italian war of liberation. These units were attached to the Italian Liberation Corps and the six Italian
    Combat Groups of the Italian Co-Belligerent Army, fighting with the Allied forces. In northern Italy the fascist
    regime organized the Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana (composed of Carabinieri, former colonial
    policemen, Guardia di Finanza and customs police), to employ it as a military police and rapid-deployment anti-
    guerilla force. GNR was later joined (but not taken over) by the Black Brigades which represented a new militant
    incarnation of the Fascist party.[citation needed]
    Due to the role the Carabinieri had played in the downfall of Mussolini, and since one of the few units which
    fought the German occupation of Rome were the Granatieri di Sardegna regiments and the II Carabinieri cadet
    battalion, the Germans did not view the Carabinieri as loyal to the fascist cause, They disarmed the force and
    began the deportation of 8,000 officers to Germany for forced labour on 6 October 1943; the Italian Colonial
    Police took over their jobs.[18]
    Subsequently, large numbers of Carabinieri joined the Italian resistance movement to fight German and Italian
    fascists.[19] Nonetheless, some 45,000 officers remained on the job and as of March 1944, this group was the only
    national security force in Italy.[20]
    After the war the Carabinieri counted at least 2,735 fallen and 6,500 wounded, out of approximately 14,000 who
    had joined the Resistance in northern and central Italy. In Yugoslavia the Carabinieri formed a battalion of the
    Italian partisan Garibaldi Division, which fought alongside the Yugoslav partisans against German and Croatian
    Ustaše Forces. The battalion lost over 80% of its members in combat and was awarded the Silver Medal of
    Military Valor to commemorate the fallen.[21][22]
    One notable act of heroism in this era came from Vice Brigadiere Salvo D'Acquisto, who was executed by
    the Germans in Palidoro (near Rome) during World War II. D'Acquisto exchanged his life for the lives of citizens
    due to be executed in retaliation for the killing of a German soldier; instead, he claimed responsibility and was
    executed for the offence.[23]

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