Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II …

Jan 19, 2025 · On April 28, 1945, Benito Mussolini was executed while trying to flee to Switzerland as Allied forces approached northern Italy, and an angry mob later mutilated his corpse in a public …

Oct 28, 2024 · On April 28, 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress were executed in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. While the identity of the individual who shot the pair with a submachine gun …

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was shot in the chest by an Italian partisan on April 28, 1945, at roughly 4:20 pm.

Apr 28, 2015 · In the pre-dawn hours of April 29, the corpses of Mussolini, Petacci and 14 fellow fascists were placed in a truck and dumped like garbage in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto, a deeply symbolic public...

The death of Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945 was one of those latter occasions. “A fitting end to a wretched life,” the New York Times declared, and there were few, either inside or outside of Italy, …

Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci hanging after execution. "Original picture made by a friend in Milan at the time Mussolini and his gang were killed. We took photographs of the originals. Mussolini and …

Apr 27, 2025 · On April 28, 1945, the dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by members of the Italian resistance, along with his mistress Clara Petacci. The next day, their bodies were dumped in a Milan …

“Save my life and I will give you an empire,” Mussolini told his judges. But he was shot in the back in the Italian method of execution.

Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of Italy, faced execution on April 28, 1945, marking a dramatic end to his rule. Mussolini, known as Il Duce, rose to power in 1922 after a march on Rome led to his …