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He (Mussolini)and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were captured on 27 April by local partisans near the village of Dongo on Lake Como. 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 the square. The bodies were beaten, shot at, and hit with hammers. Initially, Mussolini was buried in an unmarked grave but, in 1946, his body was dug up and stolen by fascist supporters. Four months later it was recovered by the authorities who then kept it hidden for the next eleven years.
From Wikipedia.
Enterstageleft
(4,560 posts)Straw Man
(6,946 posts)I won't link to them here, but for the ghoulishly curious they are just a Google image search away.
Cha
(319,067 posts)history on a thread awhile ago that was comparing Cheeto Mussolini to the Dictator Benito.
Fascinating history.. they thought they were getting away to Switzerland but the guards betrayed them if I remember correctly and they were captured at the border.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Cha
(319,067 posts)thought or thinks Flying Too Close to the Sun could happen to them