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Chapter 855: Burgundian Order Division Number Seven Italien/ Italy Austrian Order Division Number Twelve Lombardo–Venetien/ Lombardy-Venetia

The Burgundian Order Division Number Seven, known as Italien (Italy) formed out of Fascist Royalist Italian Kingdom supporters in 1943 by the Burgundian Order initially. Formed as an Italian Militia under Pio Filippani Ronconi, the 15,000 volunteers trained in Burgundy, with about 9,000 of them coming from police units, or the Black Brigades. They would later on change to be renamed the Austrian Order Division Number Twelve Lombardo-Venetien (Lombardy-Venetia), as the Austrian Orde claimed far less Italian Northwestern lands then the Austrian Empire did in Northeastern Italy. They would keep the peace in northern Italy and then be redirected to former Yugoslavia, especial Slovenia, were they would protect Italian and German Austrian ethnic groups from local socialist, communist Bosnian or Serbian partisans alike. With Vendetta Units under former Blackshirt Lieutenant-Colonel Degli Oddi, they would seek revenge against these groups, as well as all Bosnian, Serbians and Slovenes suspected of supporting rebels and guerrilla, or at least supposed to have done so, as it made the Austrian Order act against them more easier. While fighting these local resistance against the Austrian Empire, they were partly surrounded and their position overrun by the partisans who had gained access to their march route during one of their latest raids on an Austrian Army communication center. They were later send back to Lombardi, Italy with the goal to fight local partisans as a Grenadier Division. They were however also recruiting from Austrian Germans, including Wenden (Wends) in Slovenia, who were considered Germanized enough to be true Austrian Empire citizens and racial more Germanic then Slavic in the eyes of some Axis Central Powers race theorists, as were the North Italians (Padania, the Po River and Po Valley region) the Division recruited the majority of it’s forces from. For the same reason, much of the Division was actually equipped with much of the older, outdated Italian equipment, with only a few of their brigades and regiments being equipped with more modern German and Austrian equipment instead.

Operating in Milan, Bergano, Verona, Venice and even Bologna, the Italian Division operating trough all of Lombardi and Venetia with their roughly 15,000 forces to patrol the area and ensure that Axis Central Powers supply lines, as well as industry and factory areas sabotaged by local Communist rebels. Because the Fascist Italian Kingdom was an ally of the Axis Central Powers, too harsh operations weren’t allowed and the rebels themselves took full use of this fact, as well as from the Alps were they would continuously cross borders to bypass local Austrian, German, Italian and French forces of the Axis Central Powers in hopes of bypassing and flanking them this way. Cooperating with Italian Militia, Police and Soldiers alike they would manage a certain series of victories against the enemy and capture many enemy rebels fighting the Austrians and mainly the Italians, leading to many arrest, who unlike in former Yugoslavia, were not executed on the spot, but rather imprisoned and forced to do labor for the Axis Central Powers, no matter if they were prisoners of war, armed civilians or anything else. This meant the Division was involved in a series of war-crimes that were never uncovered until decades after the Second Great War. While some in Italy were not pleased, decades of anti-Socialist and anti-Communist propaganda and teachings had made many to believe that doing so had been necessary in a time of war. Because of the nature of their Divisions operation, the Italian, or Lombardy-Venetian was lend some recon airplanes by the Austrian and Italian Air Forces to keep a better eye of the on the rebel guerrilla operating in the mountains, hills and forests of northern Italy. In the hope of this way securing the Axis Central Powers operations in Northern Italy and secure their supply and production lines in the homeland far behind the front and any enemy armies against enemy saboteurs and rebels. This protection would work until 1943/ 1944 when Allied bombers operating from Northern Africa would manage to reach Spain, Southern France and Italy alike. Because of that the Division alongside many others was given anti-air guns as wel las anti-air vehicles and even anti-air tanks to counter this.

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Chapter 855: Burgundian Order Division Number Seven Italien/ Italy Austrian Order Division Number Twelve Lombardo–Venetien/ Lombardy-Venetia

The Burgundian Order Division Number Seven, known as Italien (Italy) formed out of Fascist Royalist Italian Kingdom supporters in 1943 by the Burgundian Order initially. Formed as an Italian Militia under Pio Filippani Ronconi, the 15,000 volunteers trained in Burgundy, with about 9,000 of them coming from police units, or the Black Brigades. They would later on change to be renamed the Austrian Order Division Number Twelve Lombardo-Venetien (Lombardy-Venetia), as the Austrian Orde claimed far less Italian Northwestern lands then the Austrian Empire did in Northeastern Italy. They would keep the peace in northern Italy and then be redirected to former Yugoslavia, especial Slovenia, were they would protect Italian and German Austrian ethnic groups from local socialist, communist Bosnian or Serbian partisans alike. With Vendetta Units under former Blackshirt Lieutenant-Colonel Degli Oddi, they would seek revenge against these groups, as well as all Bosnian, Serbians and Slovenes suspected of supporting rebels and guerrilla, or at least supposed to have done so, as it made the Austrian Order act against them more easier. While fighting these local resistance against the Austrian Empire, they were partly surrounded and their position overrun by the partisans who had gained access to their march route during one of their latest raids on an Austrian Army communication center. They were later send back to Lombardi, Italy with the goal to fight local partisans as a Grenadier Division. They were however also recruiting from Austrian Germans, including Wenden (Wends) in Slovenia, who were considered Germanized enough to be true Austrian Empire citizens and racial more Germanic then Slavic in the eyes of some Axis Central Powers race theorists, as were the North Italians (Padania, the Po River and Po Valley region) the Division recruited the majority of it’s forces from. For the same reason, much of the Division was actually equipped with much of the older, outdated Italian equipment, with only a few of their brigades and regiments being equipped with more modern German and Austrian equipment instead.

Operating in Milan, Bergano, Verona, Venice and even Bologna, the Italian Division operating trough all of Lombardi and Venetia with their roughly 15,000 forces to patrol the area and ensure that Axis Central Powers supply lines, as well as industry and factory areas sabotaged by local Communist rebels. Because the Fascist Italian Kingdom was an ally of the Axis Central Powers, too harsh operations weren’t allowed and the rebels themselves took full use of this fact, as well as from the Alps were they would continuously cross borders to bypass local Austrian, German, Italian and French forces of the Axis Central Powers in hopes of bypassing and flanking them this way. Cooperating with Italian Militia, Police and Soldiers alike they would manage a certain series of victories against the enemy and capture many enemy rebels fighting the Austrians and mainly the Italians, leading to many arrest, who unlike in former Yugoslavia, were not executed on the spot, but rather imprisoned and forced to do labor for the Axis Central Powers, no matter if they were prisoners of war, armed civilians or anything else. This meant the Division was involved in a series of war-crimes that were never uncovered until decades after the Second Great War. While some in Italy were not pleased, decades of anti-Socialist and anti-Communist propaganda and teachings had made many to believe that doing so had been necessary in a time of war. Because of the nature of their Divisions operation, the Italian, or Lombardy-Venetian was lend some recon airplanes by the Austrian and Italian Air Forces to keep a better eye of the on the rebel guerrilla operating in the mountains, hills and forests of northern Italy. In the hope of this way securing the Axis Central Powers operations in Northern Italy and secure their supply and production lines in the homeland far behind the front and any enemy armies against enemy saboteurs and rebels. This protection would work until 1943/ 1944 when Allied bombers operating from Northern Africa would manage to reach Spain, Southern France and Italy alike. Because of that the Division alongside many others was given anti-air guns as wel las anti-air vehicles and even anti-air tanks to counter this.