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  2. Death of Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia

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    The heavy losses suffered by the Italians on the Eastern Front, where service was extremely unpopular owing to the widespread view that this was not Italy's fight, did much to damage Mussolini's prestige with the Italian people. [157] After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941.

  4. Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Giulino - Wikipedia

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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).

  6. Edda Mussolini - Wikipedia

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    Edda Ciano, Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari (née Mussolini; 1 September 1910 – 9 April 1995) was the daughter of Benito Mussolini, fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Her husband, the fascist propagandist and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano , was executed in January 1944 for his role in Mussolini's ouster.

  7. Walter Audisio - Wikipedia

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    The MAS-38 submachine gun used by Audisio to execute Mussolini. It belonged to political commissar Michele Moretti, who lent it to Audisio after the latter's weapon jammed. On 27 April 1945 the high command of the CVL entrusted him with the execution of Benito Mussolini, who had been arrested on that day by Communist partisans near Dongo.

  8. Fascist Italy - Wikipedia

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    Fascist Italy (Italian: Italia Fascista) is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy when it was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator.

  9. Sicilian Mafia during the Fascist regime - Wikipedia

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    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 ...