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- Audisio was active as a member of the National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI) and the National Association of Antifascist Italian Victims of Political Persecution (ANPPIA). He died of a heart attack in 1973, aged 64.
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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.
Oct 13, 1973 · ROME, Oct. 12 — Walter Audisio, the Communist partisan who claimed credit for the execution of Italy's World War II Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, died here last night at the age of 64.
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 generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan. However, since the end of the war, the circumstances of Mussolini's death, and the identity of his executioner, have been subjects of continuing dispute and controversy in Italy.
Apr 28, 2015 · The identity of the triggerman remains a point of contention, but it was likely communist partisan commander Walter Audisio. Mussolini's Corpse Takes a Long, Ugly Journey. There’s no...
On the morning of April 28, a partisan named Walter Audisio drove the prisoners to a villa and directed them to stand near a low stone wall. When he pulled the trigger on his weapon, it jammed. Audisio reached for another and shot Petacci.
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.
