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The Italian government formally surrendered on 8 Sept 1943, the day before the Allies landed at Salerno.
Italy did not exactly switch sides. Churchill did not want to allow the Italians to become an ally. The only option was for them to surrender as a defeated enemy.
However, on the local scale, many Italian ex-soldiers and citizens supported the Allies and worked for the local Allied commanders. They performed duties as translators, guides, and carrying supplies up into the mountains.
because they realised that they didn't want to follow Mussolini (dictator in Italy) and US invaded tem. This was their chance to switch sides.
Italy decarlared war against the Germans on the 13th of October 1943. For more info go to the site listed below or go to Google and type in Why did Italy change sides in world war 2 and scroll and click on HISTORY OF WW2 ans scroll down until the sub-title ITLAY CHANGES SIDES.
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2547&HistoryID=ac31
Cool Answer When the Allies landed on Italy they saw the futility of their position.
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In WW2, the Italian government did NOT switch sides. Some of the leaders and businessmen of Italy and the citizens wanted to switch sides. But Churchill and England did not want the Allies to allow the Italians to join their alliance. Instead they demanded that the Italians surrender. This is why there was a long delay between the time Benito Mussolini step down in August 1943 and the announcement of their surrender on 8 September 1943, the day before the landings at Salerno.
The Italian government surrendered and their soldiers were disarmed. Of course, the German army occupied much of Italy and disarmed the Italians so they would not fight them. Italian civilians and ex-soldiers were allowed to be employed as interpreters, guides and carry supplies. It wasn't until a year later before some Italians were armed and trained so they could fight with the Allies. But this was only 5 combat groups (or battalion size).
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