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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 Italian Civil War (Italian: Guerra civile italiana, pronounced [ˈɡwɛrra tʃiˈviːle itaˈljaːna]) was a civil war in the Kingdom of Italy fought during the Italian campaign of World War II between Italian fascists and Italian partisans (mostly politically organized in the National Liberation Committee) and, to a lesser extent, the Italian Co-belligerent Army.
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Mussolini ordered Ciano's death, and in January 1944 he was executed by firing squad. [ 3 ] Ciano wrote and left behind a diary [ 4 ] that has been used as a source by several historians, including William Shirer in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960) [ 5 ] and in the four-hour HBO documentary-drama Mussolini and I (1985).
"A World War II American newsreel, made around May 1945, summarizes Benito Mussolini's death. At the end, part of Mussolini's execution by firing squad is shown, as well as his dismembered leg hanging off a wall." I tweaked my last attempt a bit. Maxim (☎) 18:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Tabler is set to be executed at 7 p.m. ET, one hour after the 6 p.m. execution of James Dennis Ford in Florida. They're set to become the nation's fourth and fifth executions this year.
Texas executed Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved young pastor. Nelson, who was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CT, was convicted of killing the Rev ...
During World War II, the Gran Sasso raid (codenamed Unternehmen Eiche, German pronunciation: [ʊntɐˌneːmən ˈaɪ̯çə] ⓘ, literally "Operation Oak", by the German military [1]) on 12 September 1943 was a successful operation by German paratroopers and Waffen-SS commandos to help the deposed Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini escape from custody in the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif.