They weren't particularly enthusiastic about it, they weren't running concentration camps, many of them did their best to shield Jews or help them escape Europe ...
And when given the opportunity to say "fcck this" ... they dragged Mussolini through the streets, killed him, and hanged his corpse by the ankles from the canopy of an Esso station.

There was no such scene in Germany, or USSR, or China, or Cambodia ...
Romanians deserve credit for making their version of it.
Italian fascism deserves opprobrium as do all totalitarian ideologies, but Italians of the fascist era do not belong in the same category as hitlerist germans or stalinist russians or maoist chinese.
It isn’t about them being the same as, it is about how completely they escape it, Russia, Italy, Japan all escape the evil branding of WWII and Hitler to some degree, or totally, they were all guilty and Japan should be known in the same way as Germany is, or close to it.