Editing Corfu (section)

====Italian occupation and resistance====
[[File:Bay of Garitsa.png|thumb|Bay of Garitsa]]

During the [[Greco-Italian War]], Corfu was occupied by the Italians in April 1941. They administered Corfu and the Ionian islands as a separate entity from Greece until September 1943, following [[Benito Mussolini]]'s orders of fulfilling Italian [[Italia irredenta|Irredentism]] and making Corfu part of the [[Kingdom of Italy]]. During the Second World War the [[10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Greece)|10th Infantry Regiment]] of the [[Hellenic Army|Greek Army]], composed mainly of Corfiot soldiers,<ref name="Corfu cityhall history page">{{Cite web|url=https://corfu.gr/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106230616/http://www.corfu.gr/en/history.htm|url-status=dead|title=Επίσημη Ιστοσελίδα Δήμου Κεντρικής Κέρκυρας και Διαποντίων Νήσων|archivedate=6 January 2008|website=Δήμος Κεντρικής Κέρκυρας και Διαποντίων Νήσων}}</ref> was assigned the task of defending Corfu. The regiment took part in ''Operation Latzides'', which was an unsuccessful attempt to stem the forces of the Italians.<ref name="Corfu cityhall history page" /> After Greece's surrender to the Axis, the island came under Italian control and occupation.<ref name="Corfu cityhall history page" /> On the first Sunday of November 1941, high school students from all over Corfu took part in [[student protest]]s against the occupying Italian army; these student protests of the island were among the first acts of overt popular [[Greek Resistance|Resistance]] in occupied Greece and a rare phenomenon even by wartime European standards.<ref name="Corfu cityhall history page" /> Subsequently, a considerable number of Corfiots escaped to [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]] in mainland Greece and enlisted as [[Partisan (military)|partisans]] in [[Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos|ELAS]] and [[Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos|EDES]], in order to join the resistance movement gathering in the mainland.<ref name="Corfu cityhall history page" />