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Fearing that Mussolini and Petacci might be rescued by fascist supporters, the partisans drove them, in the middle of the night, to a nearby farm of a peasant family named De Maria; they believed this would be a safe place to hold them. Mussolini and Petacci spent the rest of the night and most of the following day there. [27]
Subsequently, Piazzale Loreto was the scene of one of the best-known events in the modern history of Italy, namely the public display of Benito Mussolini's corpse on 29 April 1945. The day before, Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and some other high-ranking Fascists had been captured and shot by partisans in Giulino, near Lake Como.
Piazzale Loreto massacre was a Nazi-Fascist massacre that took place in Italy, on 10 August 1944 in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, during the World War II.. Fifteen Italian partisans were shot by soldiers of the Oberdan group of the Ettore Muti Mobile Autonomous Legion of the Italian Social Republic, by order of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst, and their bodies were exposed to the public.
Mussolini rescued by German troops from his prison in Campo Imperatore on 12 September 1943. In an effort to conceal his location from the Germans, Mussolini was moved around: first to Ponza, then to La Maddalena, before being imprisoned at Campo Imperatore, a mountain resort in Abruzzo where he was completely isolated. Badoglio kept up the ...
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The village is the place where Benito Mussolini and his lover Claretta Petacci were executed on 28 April 1945, in front of a manor house named Villa Belmonte.The execution was carried out on the orders of the National Liberation Committee by Walter Audisio, a Communist partisan, after Mussolini was captured in Dongo (often erroneously considered to be the place where the execution took place).
The corpses of Mussolini, Pavolini and other executed fascist leaders were then put on public display, hanging by their feet, at a gasoline station in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] In the meantime, in the face of the rapid Allied advance across northern Italy, Axis resistance collapsed and there was no "last stand" as the Germans ...
At the time of Benito Mussolini's capture, on April 27, 1945, the Italian resistance fighter Urbano Lazzaro seized two cases of valuables and documents. Mussolini's case included 1,150,000 lire and 160 British sovereigns. Lazzaro brought the two cases to a bank in the village of Domaso, north of Dongo. [1]