Death of Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini died on 28 April 1945 in Giulino (a city in north Italy) when the allied powers were advancing up Italy during the final days of World War II in Italy. Mussolini and his mistress tried to escape to Switzerland, but were caught by Italian partisans and were executed without trial. There body’s were taken to a gas station in Milan and hung upside down and later stoned. Four days after his death, the Italian Social Republic surrendered.

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Italian Social Republic:
in December 1943
in September 1944
Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress, was captured and executed with him.
Luigi Longo (left) and Palmiro Togliatti at a Communist Party congress after the war
Pier Bellini delle Stelle, detto "Pedro", comandante della 52ª Brigata Garibaldi che arrestò Mussolini a Dongo
The corpse of Mussolini (second from left) next to Petacci (middle) and other executed fascists in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, 1945
The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci photographed by a US army cameraman in the Milan city mortuary
Mussolini's tomb in his family crypt, Predappio
Urbano Lazzaro, 1945, indicating a bullet hole near the entrance to the Villa Belmonte.
The De Maria farmhouse, c. 1945

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