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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".
Ciano attempted to convince Mussolini to bring Italy out of the war as casualties mounted but was ignored. In 1943, Ciano supported the ousting of Mussolini as prime minister. Ciano was later executed by Fascists in the Italian Social Republic for betraying Mussolini. Rodolfo Graziani was commander of Italian North Africa and Governor-General ...
The United States and Fascist Italy: The Rise of American Finance in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Overy, Richard. The Road to War (2009) pp 191–244 for 1930s. OL 28444279M; Rodrigo, Javier. Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Routledge, 2021). Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini (Faber & Faber ...
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.
Also a few days before the march, Mussolini consulted with the U.S. Ambassador Richard Washburn Child about whether the U.S. government would object to Fascist participation in a future Italian government and Child gave him American support. When Mussolini learned that Prime Minister Luigi Facta had given Gabriele D'Annunzio the mission to ...
Mussolini had recently advised moving out of the cities if possible to avoid potential bombing in event of war. [16] Born: The Mighty Hannibal, American singer, songwriter and record producer; in Atlanta (d. 2014) Bulle Ogier, French actress; in Boulogne-Billancourt; Claude Osteen, American baseball player; in Caney Spring, Tennessee
Victor Emmanuel III did retain his trust in Mussolini, and he hoped that the Duce could save the situation. [17] The King kept his own counsel and isolated himself from anyone who tried to learn his intentions. [18] General Vittorio Ambrosio, who was devoted to the King and hostile to the Germans, became the new Chief of the General Staff.