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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
On April 28, 1945, disgraced fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was brutally executed by Italian partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. When Benito Mussolini, the tyrannical ruler of Fascist Italy before and during World War II, was executed on April 28, 1945, it was only the beginning.
This Day In History: 04/28/1945 - Benito Mussolini Executed. By April 25, 1945, however, the Third Reich was quickly losing its grip on northern Italy. With his stronghold of Milan teetering on the...
Benito Mussolini, 1940. (Photo Credit: Roger Viollet / Getty Images) On April 28, 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress were executed in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. While the identity of the individual who shot the pair with a submachine gun remains unknown, it’s believed to have been Walter Audisio, a Communist partisan. Mussolini ...
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was shot in the chest by an Italian partisan on April 28, 1945, at roughly 4:20 pm.
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 next day, their captors brought the pair to the small town of Giulino de Mezzegra on the shores of Lake Como and executed them in a hail of machine gun fire. Then, the final indignity: the posthumous desecration.
