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Death of Benito Mussolini. Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe. The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist ...
Italian partisan Walter Audisio, self-confessed executioner of Mussolini. File photo. In a state of great agitation he rushed down the palace stairs with Marshal Graziani and two priests, and did not return to give his reply. He was next reported by a Swiss railway official passing through Cernobbio on Lake Como, early on Friday.
The man designated was Walter Audisio, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War’s International Brigades who used the pseudonym Colonel Valerio. By the morning of Saturday, April 28, the storm had given way to dazzling sunlight.
Aug 4, 2016 · Wherever the order originated, Longo sent two partisans, Walter Audisio and Aldo Lampredi, to Dongo to carry out the execution. Mussolini’s Execution Cross marking the place in Mezzegra where Mussolini was shot.
A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, Audisio was involved in the death of Benito Mussolini, and personally executed the dictator and his mistress Clara Petacci according to the generally accepted account of the event.
Sep 5, 2006 · Walter Audisio, also known as Colonel Valerio, was said to have killed Mussolini after being given orders to do so. But Guido Mussolini's lawyer said research showed Mr Audisio was not mentioned...
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Jun 28, 2019 · The partisan and later politician Walter Audisio, whose claim to be the man who executed Italy’s Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in April 1945 is generally accepted as likely to be true, was born on this day in 1909 in Alessandria in Piedmont.
