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When Mussolini was arrested and the fascist regime came to an end, Wikipedia notes there was no wide-scale violence directed towards the fascists themselves but instead the symbols of fascism - quite opposite from the violence in 1945. Why was the end of fascism in 1943 relatively bloodless?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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