Surrendering German soldiers run towards Allied lines at Cisterna. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victor Emmanuel III (1869 - 1947), king of Italy from 1900 to 1946, inspects soldiers of the Angelo Castle garrison in Rome, with General Diaz and Pietro Badoglio (1871 - 1956), commaders-in-chief of Italy's armies. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

The start of the Allied invasion of Sicily - zero hour has arrived and the men of the Allied forces receive the word 'Go.' (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

28th April 1945: Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) and others captured with him, including his mistress, Clara Petacci, hang by their feet from a filling station after their execution at Giulino di Mezzegra, near Lake Como, Italy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

15th September 1944: A line of captured Nazi prisoners, led by a beaming American, marches past the foxhole of American infantrymen in the Carroceto area, near Naples. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

1944: Nazi soldiers march through a devastated town in the battle area of Italy. Along the whole of the 100-mile main Anzio front, the activity has been limited to local skirmishing and artillery and mortar fire. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

17th August 1943: Italian prisoners in trucks clog the North coast roads of Sicily following the invasion. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

February 1944: General Field Marshal Kesselring (left), Commander-in-Chief of the German troops in Italy, inspects his troops outside the Anzio beachhead. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

29th February 1944: The Monastery at Monte Cassino, as seen from the German lines, shows that only the outer walls have survived the Allied bombing. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

1943: An American cruiser of the invasion fleet, and Licata, Sicily blazing in the background. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

circa 1944: German soldiers lying dead in the street of Anzio after trying to defend the town as Allied 5th Army troops cautiously advance up the street. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

11th May 1939: Prince Paul of Yugoslavia with Count Ciano, Conte di Cortellazzo in Rome. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

28th April 1945: Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) the Italian dictator lies dead in Milan's Piazza Loroto with his mistress Claratta Petacci. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

8th August 1938: The King of Italy, King Victor Emmanuel III (1869 - 1947) and Mussolini at the Rome Army Corps manoeuvres in the Abruzzi. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)