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Mussolini and Petacci were executed the following afternoon, two days before Adolf Hitler's suicide. The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were then hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on ...
The heavy losses suffered by the Italians on the Eastern Front, where service was extremely unpopular owing to the widespread view that this was not Italy's fight, did much to damage Mussolini's prestige with the Italian people. [159] After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941.
My Autobiography is a book by Benito Mussolini. It is a dictated, narrative autobiography recounting the author's youth, his years as an agitator and journalist, his experiences in World War I , the formation and revolutionary struggles of the Fascist Party , the March on Rome , and his early years in power.
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Duce (/ ˈ d uː tʃ eɪ / DOO-chay, Italian:) is an Italian title, derived from the Latin word dux, 'leader', and a cognate of duke. National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini was identified by Fascists as Il Duce ('The Leader') of the movement since the birth of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in 1919.
The Italian national government in Rome did nothing to react to these developments, and its inaction prompted Mussolini to plan a march on Rome. [12] From their new power base in Milan, the Fascists gathered the financial support of large companies who were determined to fight against "strikes, bolshevism and nationalization". [ 13 ]
Renzo De Felice (8 April 1929 – 25 May 1996) was an Italian historian, who specialized in the Fascist era, writing, among other works, a 6000-page biography of Mussolini (4 volumes, 1965–1997). He argued that Mussolini was a revolutionary modernizer in domestic issues but a pragmatist in foreign policy who continued the Realpolitik policies ...
On 25 January 1882, Mussolini married Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher and Roman Catholic. [3] Unlike his wife, Mussolini did not believe in God and hated the Roman Catholic Church. [4] Maltoni's father looked down upon her decision to marry Mussolini and did not approve of the marriage. [4] In 1883, Maltoni gave birth to their first son, Benito ...