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  1. 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.

  2. Apr 2, 2022 · How Did Benito Mussolini Die? 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.

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  3. Apr 28, 2015 · How did Italy's wartime dictator die? And what happened to his corpse afterward? The Italian dictator’s final days and his body’s strange journey in the years after.

  4. 5 days ago · As the Second World War neared its end in April 1945, Benito Mussolini faced imminent defeat. On April 18, he traveled from Gargnano to Milan, hoping to negotiate with the Allies through the city’s Archbishop. However, his efforts were in vain, as the situation deteriorated rapidly. The Allies were closing in, and partisan uprisings were ...

  5. She died there in 1979, at age 87, and was buried next to the one-time dictator and two of their children. Son Bruno had died testing an air force bomber in 1941; daughter Anna Maria, satisfied to be a housewife, passed on in 1968.

  6. The death of Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945 was characterized “A fitting end to a wretched life,” by The New York Times.

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  8. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922, until his deposition in 1943, as well as Duce of Italian fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919, until his summary execution in 1945.