Allies invaded Italy on 3 September 1943.
At first sight, the invasion of Italy seems normal. It seems logical that the Allies wanted to open a second front right away.
But when you study more closely how things happened, you see that, once again, there is something fishy.
The fishy thing is the fact that just when the Allies were on the verge of invading Italy, Mussolini was thrown out of the power.
The fishy thing is the fact that just when the Allies were on the verge of invading Italy, Mussolini was thrown out of the power.
And what is fishier is how things happened. On 24 July 1943, The Grand Council of Fascism met. It was the first time that this body had met since the start of the war. One of the resolutions on the agenda asked the king to resume his full constitutional powers; to the detriment of Mussolini of course. This motion carried by a 19-7 margin. The next day, Mussolini was arrested by Carabinieri on king's orders.
The problem is that such things can't happen. It's just ridiculous. Mussolini would have seen the motion proposal on the agenda of the meeting. And faithful subordinates would have warned him about it. Then, Mussolini would have immediately put in jail or more probably killed the guys who had proposed the meeting.
Even if he had let the Council meet, he would have sent the conspirators to prison during the Council, or just after (or killed them).
Even the demand of a Grand Council of Fascism meeting, at this very moment would have obviously seemed extremely suspicious for Mussolini, or for anybody with an IQ above 20. You are losing the war, the national territory is now under attack, and someone wants suddenly to meet the Grand Council, a council whish hasn't met since the beginning of the war? You would of course think: "Hey guys, aren't you trying to oust me from power? Do you really think I'm gonna let you do this"?
Those guys would in fact never have dared to meet the council. They would have been sure that Mussolini would have made them killed for treason right away.
And they would have known that Hitler would send his troops in Italy and would destroy their work after just one week, making all those efforts and risks totally worthless. And the German troops being already present in Italy, the conspirators would have known they had a high risk of being taken by them and being executed.