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Apr 28, 2015 · They were foiled when a partisan known only as Eduardo found Mussolini in the town of Dongo and sent men to arrest him and sentence him and Petacci to death by firing squad.
Some historians now believe that Mussolini’s death also influenced Adolf Hitler’s decision to commit suicide and have his body burned in the final days of World War II, though historian Hugh ...
- Inside Benito Mussolini’s Rise to Power
- A Transformation Into A Brutal Dictator
- How IL Duce Entered World War II
- The Downfall of Benito Mussolini
- How Did Benito Mussolini Die?
- How Mussolini’s Corpse Was Mutilated After His Death
- The Aftermath of Mussolini’s Death
Benito Mussolini took control of Italy thanks to the pen just as much as the sword. Born July 29, 1883, in Dovia di Predappio, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was intelligent and inquisitive from an early age. In fact, he first set out to be a teacher but soon decided that career wasn’t for him. Still, he voraciously read the works of great Europe...
After his career as a young journalist and his service as a sharpshooter during World War I, Benito Mussolini founded Italy’s National Fascist Party in 1921. Backed by increasing numbers of supporters and strongarm paramilitary squads dressed in black, the Fascist leader calling himself “Il Duce” soon became known for fiery speeches fueled by his e...
Five years after the Ethiopian invasion, Benito Mussolini watched from the sidelines as Hitler invaded France. In his own mind, Il Duce felt it should be Italy fighting the French. Undoubtedly, however, the German military was bigger, better equipped, and had better leaders. Thus Mussolini could only watch, align himself with Hitler fully, and decl...
Facing pressure on the home front due to increasingly stressful wartime conditions and rebelliousness from within his own ranks, Benito Mussolini was removed from office by the king and the Grand Council in July of 1943. The Allies had re-taken northern Africa away from Italy and Sicily was now in Allied hands as they prepared to invade Italy itsel...
By the spring of 1945, the war in Europe was over and Italy was broken. The south was in ruins as Allied troops advanced. The country was battered, and it was, many thought, all Il Duce’s fault. But arresting Il Duce was no longer a viable course of action. Even though Hitler was surrounded by Allied troops in Berlin, Italy didn’t want to take any ...
The night after Benito Mussolini’s death, a cargo truck roared into Milan’s Square of the Fifteen Martyrs. A cadre of 10 men unceremoniously dumped 18 bodies out of the back. They were those of Mussolini, the Petaccis, and the 15 suspected Fascists. It was the same square where, a year earlier, Mussolini’s men had gunned down 15 anti-Fascists in a ...
Word of Benito Mussolini’s death spread quickly. Hitler, for one, heard the news on the radio and vowed to not have his corpse desecrated in the same fashion as Mussolini’s. People in Hitler’s inner circle reported that he said, “This will never happen to me.” In his final will, scrawled on a piece of paper, Hitler said, “I do not wish to fall into...
- William Delong
On 30 April, a post mortem was carried out on Mussolini at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Milan. One version of the subsequent report indicated that he had been shot with nine bullets, while another version specified seven bullets. Four bullets near the heart were given as the cause of death. The calibres of the bullets were not identified ...
Nov 24, 2009 · On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. The 61-year ...
- Missy Sullivan
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The death of Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945 was one of those latter occasions. “A fitting end to a wretched life,” the New York Times declared, and there were few, either inside or outside of Italy, who disagreed.
Luigi Mussini (19 December 1813 – 18 June 1888) was an Italian painter, linked especially to the Purismo movement and to the Nazarenes.
