Editing Junio Valerio Borghese (section)

===8 September 1943: the Armistice===
[[Image:Borghese, Junio Valerio.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Borghese in 1944]]
After [[Armistice of Cassibile|Italy's surrender to the Allies on 8 September 1943]], the ''Xª MAS'' was disbanded. While some of its sailors joined the Allies, Borghese chose to continue fighting with the [[Italian Social Republic]] (RSI) alongside the German Armed Forces (''[[Wehrmacht]]'').

On 12 September 1943, he signed a treaty of alliance with Nazi Germany's ''[[Kriegsmarine]]''. Many of his colleagues volunteered to serve with him, and the Decima Flottiglia was revived, headquartered in ''Caserma del Muggiano'', [[La Spezia]]. By the end of the war, it had over 18,000 members, and Borghese conceived it as a purely military unit. The X Flottiglia gained a reputation for never firing a shot at any Italian military units fighting with the Allied forces.

In April 1945 when the [[United States|US]] command discovered that the British had granted permission to Marshal [[Josip Broz Tito]] of [[Yugoslavia]], and his Communist troops, to occupy northeastern Italy from Venice to the east, Borghese moved the bulk of the X Flottiglia from the Ligurian and Piedmontese area to the Veneto. The X Flottiglia built a line of defence on the Tagliamento river where they resisted until the arrival of the Allied troops.

In this action, the X Flottiglia lost over eighty per cent of the fighting sailors dispatched to the front against Tito's troops, and the Italian Communist Partisans allied with Tito.

At the end of the war, Borghese was rescued by [[Office of Strategic Services]] officer [[James Jesus Angleton|James Angleton]], who dressed him in an American uniform and drove him from [[Milan]] to [[Rome]] for interrogation by the Allies. Borghese was then tried and convicted of collaboration with the Nazi invaders, but not of [[war crime]]s, by the Italian Court. He was "sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, discounted to 3 years, due to his glorious expeditions during the war, his defence of northeast borders against Tito's ''[[9th Corps (Partisans)|IX Corps]]'' and his defence of [[Genoa]] harbour".<ref>Sergio Nesi, Italian Supreme Court report in ''Il processo'', in ''Junio Valerio Borghese. Un principe, un comandante, un italiano''. Bologna, Lo Scarabeo, 2004, pp. 555-556.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UAMZMoMuCEcC&pg=PR4 |title=The United States and the European Right, 1945-1955 |last=Kisatsky |first=Deborah |date=2005 |publisher=Ohio State University Press |isbn=9780814209981 |language=en}}</ref> He was released from jail after four years' imprisonment by the [[Court of Cassation (Italy)|Supreme Court of Cassation]] in 1949.