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  1. Audisio and Lampredi left Milan for Dongo early on the morning of 28 April 1945 to carry out the orders Audisio had been given by Longo. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] On arrival in Dongo, they met Bellini delle Stelle, who was the local partisan commander, to arrange for Mussolini to be handed over to them.

  2. Jul 16, 2017 · Early on 28 April, Audisio and Lampredi drove to Dongo. There they met with Bellini delle Stelle, who as commander of the local partisans had been responsible for the prisoners. Some sort of meeting or tribunal may or may not have taken place – accounts of this differs wildly.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. At a Communist rally in Rome in March 1947, a former partisan named Audisio was officially proclaimed before an audience of 40,000 as the killer of Mussolini and Petacci. This occurred during a campaign for the Italian Parliament, and he was elected.

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