00:00September 8, 1943. At 7.42 p.m. over Leija Radio, the head of government, Marshal Pietro Badoglio,
00:09reads a proclamation to the Italian nation in which he makes clear the kingdom's intention
00:13to leave the Axis, having requested and obtained an armistice from the Allied forces. The announcement
00:19comes about an hour after that of General Heike Eisenhower, who had announced the same armistice
00:24in a broadcast on Radio Algiers.
