After WW2 Germany Was Annexed By The U.S. GB. France And Russia, Why Wasn't The Same Done To Italy?

Nazi Germany literally fought to the end. Italy surrendered to the Allies in September 1943 (Mussolini fell and was arrested) and then "switched" sides becoming a "co-belligerent" against the Axis (they "declared" war on Germany and Japan). The Italian war "effort" was mostly partisans fighting in the rear of the German lines.
 
Italy actually had a "light" US and British occupation that ended rapidly. There was a threat that communist Yugoslavia would take over parts of northern Italy (Trieste) in 1946-48.
 
Hitler later "rescued" Mussolini from captivity.
 
At the end in early April 1945, Mussolini was caught and shot by Partisans in Northern Italy as the German Army was retreating.
 
The 1945 Potsdam Conference and earlier 1943 Casablanca Conference demanded unconditional surrender and an occupation (Interestingly, after WWI, Germany was briefly and lightly occupied by the western Allies including the US).
 
The Allies (US, England, USSR and France) divided Germany into zones of occupation. The USSR's sector later became communist East Germany while the western Allies' sectors became West Germany. They merged as the USSR collapsed in 1990.

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