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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 ...
Mussolini claimed that the world was divided into a hierarchy of races (though this was justified more on cultural than on biological grounds), and that history was nothing more than a Darwinian struggle for power and territory between various "racial masses". [71] Mussolini saw high birthrates in Africa and Asia as a threat to the "white race".
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.
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 ...
This was the last execution in Italy for common crimes, while the next day there was the last execution for war crimes (against members of the National Republican Guard). The Italian Constitution , signed on 27 December 1947, and in force since 1 January 1948, completely abolished the death penalty for all common military and civil crimes ...
Execution_of_Mussolini_(1945).ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 52 s, 720 × 480 pixels, 765 kbps overall, file size: 4.77 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
"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)
As Italian Fascism became a stable institution, the potential murder of Mussolini became harder to attempt and offered less potential impact to destabilize his regime. In May 1931, American anarchist Michele Schirru was arrested and executed in Italy for plotting to kill Mussolini.