ABSTRACT
The ceasefire between Austria-Hungary and Italy was signed on 3 November 1918 at the Villa Giusti in Abano in the vicinity of Padua. A military government under General Guglielmo Pecori-Giraldi administered South Tyrol until 31 July 1919. From Bozen, troops then proceeded through the Eisack Valley towards Brenner and occupied the Brenner Pass on 10 November. The first great outburst of Fascist violence was the assault on a Trachtenumzug on the occasion of the opening of the Bozen Fair on 24 April 1921. On the morning of 24 April, 280 Fascists from other regions of Italy arrived by train in Bozen, where they joined up with 120 members of the Bozen Fascio. On 18 March 1922, Luigi Facta became prime minister. He was even weaker and less of an authority figure than his predecessor Ivanoe Bonomi, and the end of his administration were marked by the victory of the Fascists with their notorious March on Rome.
