I would hope so Wiki says the Germans had control of 45,000 Italian troops up there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Army
The Axis had 21 much weaker German divisions and four Italian Esercito Nazionale Repubblicano (ENR) divisions with about 349,000 German and 45,000 Italian troops on 9 April. There were another 91,000 German troops on the lines of communication and the Germans commanded about 100,000 Italian police.[8][4] Three of the Italian divisions were allocated to the Ligurian Army under Rodolfo Graziani guarding the western flank facing France and the fourth was with the 14th Army, in a sector thought less likely to be attacked.[9]
I am trying to find out just which armor or vehicles they used. Did they use their own or German?