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Edda Ciano, Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari (née Mussolini; 1 September 1910 – 9 April 1995) was the daughter of Benito Mussolini, fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Her husband, the fascist propagandist and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano , was executed in January 1944 for his role in Mussolini's ouster.
The Mussolini family is a well-known family in Italy. The most prominent member was Benito Mussolini, the fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Other ...
The CLNAI subsequently announced, on the day after his death, that Mussolini had been executed on its orders. [20] In any event, Longo instructed a communist partisan of the General Command, Walter Audisio, to go immediately to Dongo to carry out the order. According to Longo, he did so with the words "go and shoot him". [31]
By Mussolini's reckoning, the Italian population had to reach 60 million to enable Italy to fight a major war—hence his relentless demands for Italian women to have more children. [71] Mussolini and the fascists managed to be simultaneously revolutionary and traditionalist; [73] [74] because this was vastly different from anything else in the ...
Petacci had a long-standing relationship with Mussolini while he was married to Rachele Mussolini. Petacci was 28 years younger than Mussolini. [5] They met for the first time in April 1932 when Mussolini, driving with an aide to Ostia, overtook a car occupied by the twenty-year-old Petacci and family members. She called out, "Duce! Duce!"
Yet Mussolini: Son of the Century doesn’t look like your average history lesson. It was partly filmed at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, in front of the second-largest Volume screen in Europe, in a ...
Anna Maria Mussolini is the last-born child of Benito Mussolini and Rachele Guidi, [2] born on September 3, 1929, at Villa Carpena in Forlì.Her early years were marked by tragedy when she was afflicted with severe polio at the age of seven, causing permanent disabilities and deeply affecting her father. [3]
A Swiss university is hosting an exhibition about its controversial award of an honorary doctorate to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, putting the links between his fascist government and Swiss ...