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Following Italy's defeat in the Second World War on 8 September 1943, Padua became part of the Italian Social Republic, i. e., the puppet state of the Nazi occupiers.

The city hosted the Ministry of Public Instruction of the new state, as well as military and militia commands and a military airport.

The Resistenza, the Italian partisans, was very active against both the new fascist rule and the Nazis.

One of the main leaders was the University vice-chancellor Concetto Marchesi.