Italian Social Republic (RSI) Definitive Series

Italian Social Republic · 1944 · 25c

This definitive series was issued by the Italian Social Republic (RSI), the German puppet state in northern Italy during World War II. The stamps feature various Italian monuments and allegorical figures, overprinted with a fasces emblem to signify the new regime. They were created by overprinting existing stocks of the Italian Kingdom's 'Imperiale' series.

Issued during the final phase of World War II in Italy, these stamps represent the authority of Mussolini's short-lived RSI government after the armistice and the Allied invasion of the south.