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Nov 2, 2011 · After Mussolini’s corpse was hung up on meat hooks on April 29, 1945, in Piazzale Loreto in Milan, where citizens vented their fury at their former leader, he was buried in an unmarked...
Aug 20, 2021 · According to History.com, the man who put himself on a pedestal for a country to adore and fear was buried in the anonymity of an unmarked grave. Some Fascists came along and disinterred him a year later, absconding with it to a convent in the region of Lombardy, but the government was able to recover it and bury it at a Milan monastery.
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Jul 29, 2012 · When the allies landed on the Italian mainland in 1943, the Fascist Grand Council turned against him, ousting him from power and imprisoning him. German forces were required to invade Italy to keep it in the war, and Mussolini was set up to head the Italian Socialist Republic under German control.
Oct 10, 2023 · Shortly thereafter, Mussolini’s body was buried in an unmarked grave in the Musocco cemetery, a location kept secret even from his family.
Mussolini’s corpse was buried anonymously in Milan’s Musocco Cemetery in section 16, grave 384, while part of his brain was handed over for study to St. Elizabeth’s Psychiatric Hospital in Washington, D.C., and only returned to his widow, Donna Rachele, decades later.
The grave-tomb of Benito Mussolini is located on the cemetery of Predappio, the village where he was born. He is buried here since 1957.
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Indeed, the scene was grisly: the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci dangling upside down by their heels in front of a gas station in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto. Mussolini’s “road to Milan” was a long one, filled with strange twists and turns.
