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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini [a] (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician who was the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922, until his overthrow in 1943. He was also Duce of Italian fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919, until his summary execution in 1945.
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 ...
Top right: Benito Mussolini was the longest-serving prime minister in Italian history. Bottom left: Silvio Berlusconi was the longest-serving prime minister of the Italian Republic. Bottom right: Giorgia Meloni is the current prime minister of Italy as well as the first woman to hold the office.
The Mussolini government was the longest-serving government in the history of Italy.The Cabinet administered the country from 31 October 1922 to 25 July 1943, for a total of 7,572 days, or 20 years, 8 months and 25 days.
Italy enters World War II, and Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini promptly sets about constructing air raid shelters for himself at Villa Torlonia, his grand Rome residence since 1929.
Mussolini's Minister of the Interior, Luigi Federzoni, recalled Mori to active service and appointed him prefect of Trapani. Mori arrived in Trapani in June 1924 and stayed until October 20, 1925, when Mussolini appointed him prefect of Palermo. Mussolini granted Mori special powers to eradicate the Mafia by any means possible. In a telegram ...
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Rachele Mussolini (1890–1979), wife of Benito Mussolini, sister-in-law of Arnaldo and Edvige Mussolini Edda Mussolini (1910–1995), daughter of Benito Mussolini, married to Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari. Fabrizio Ciano, 3rd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (1931–2008), memoirist ...
General elections were held in Italy on 6 April 1924 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. [1] They were held two years after the March on Rome, in which Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party rose to power, and under the controversial Acerbo Law, which stated that the party with the largest share of the votes would automatically receive two-thirds of the seats in Parliament as ...