San Marino axistate?

[Henrik Andersson]

Italy start war against U.K 1940. San Marino followed the.
So is San Marino an axisstate?

[SRF]

San Marino was neutral until the autumn of 1944. German troops violated its neutrality by retreating across the country. British troops followed, assuring the San Marino government that they would leave as soon as the Germans were cleared out. However, for some reason, the Germans decided to take the republic's small army prisoner, after which San Marino declared war on Germany. Within a couple of weeks, the British had cleared the Germans out of its territory.

[Hans]

In WWII, San Marino followed Italy in declaring war on Britain (1940) but abolished the fascist system and declared its neutrality shortly before Italy's surrender [Sept. 1943]. A year later San Marino declared war on Germany after German forces had entered its territory and captured its 300 strong army. In the last year of the war, San Marino gave refuge to some 100,000 people fleeing the fighting between the allied and German forces.

- Hans

[Henrik Andersson]

Who was the ledaers fore the "fascist San Mariono"?