First of all; I beg your pardon for my english (difficoult to write in english about history for me...)
In the modern Italian society a general, huge, sense of guilt for what happended, before and during the WWII, because italian fascism, continues to be present.
Our influence on the war events was quite marginal than german influence, so our historic view concerns, in the most part, of what fascism did bad for our country and our people.
The contribution of the italian Armed Forces to the fascism is still well remembered in the people minds.
Probably the responsability of the armed forces are not so big as the books teach us in the school...
This happens because, when (ended the war) it was time to blame someone for fascism; italian politicians chose to blame only the armed forces, neglecting that the civil society was fascist as well at that time!
This fact has a particoular effect on the modern italian society.
Everytime Italy is called for an international operation (as happened for Irak, or Afganistan) a big part of the citizens are againist it, because they don't trust our armed forces, so the govern must to call all operations "peacekeeping" or "humanitarian operation".
Another, for me strange, concept in the italian view of history is that Germans in WWII are viewed like invaders!!
In all our books you can read: "Germans enemies"..."Nazists Invaders..." "Nazist occupation"...
This is pretty strange because we were allied!!
Nazists became enemies after our joint with Allies...I wonder why these authors forget the time when we were allied with Germany.
They say: "Mussolini and the armed forces were allied with them...not italian people"
...mmmmm...I think it's a very partial view of the facts indeed...
The discussion about the WWII events in Italy is still to end...