Free Republic of Ossola Libera Repubblica dell'Ossola (Italian) | |||||||||
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| September 9, 1944–October 23, 1944 | |||||||||
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 Ossola Republic in Europe | |||||||||
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| Capital | Domodossola | ||||||||
| Government | Partisan republic | ||||||||
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• Established | September 9, 1944 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | October 23, 1944 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Italy | ||||||||
The Ossola Republic was a partisan republic that was established in northern Italy on September 10, 1944 and recaptured by the fascists on October 23, 1944. Unlike other partisan republics, the Ossola Republic was able, in little more than a month of existence, to cope not only with the contingencies imposed by the state of war, but also to give itself an articulate organization, with the establishment of the Provisional Government Council of Domodossola and the liberated zone (G.P.G.). During the albeit brief Forty Days of Freedom,[1] illustrious figures such as Umberto Terracini, Piero Malvestiti and Gianfranco Contini collaborated on the drafting of democratically oriented reforms, which would later inspire the drafting of the Italian Constitution.[2]
The history of the Ossola Republic was told in Leandro Castellani's screenplay Forty Days of Freedom and Giorgio Bocca's book A Partisan Republic (1964). A very detailed narrative is also found in Eugenio Corti's novel The Red Horse.