Benito Mussolini
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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led the Kingdom of Italy as a fascist dictatorship from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. Known under his rule
Mussolini in 1939
Birthplace of Mussolini in Predappio; the building now hosts exhibitions on contemporary history.
Mussolini's booking file following his arrest by the police on 19 June 1903, Bern, Switzerland
Mussolini in the early 1900s
Death of Benito Mussolini
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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 Wor
Benito Mussolini
…1922, establishing a totalitarian fascist dictatorship. He oversaw Italy's participation in World War II as a prominent member of the Axis Powers, and was executed by the Italian resistance near the end of the war in 1945. Mussolini was originally a radical socialist journalist at Avanti!. In 1912, he became a…
Benito Mussolini, Duce of Fascism
Walter Audisio, the Italian partisan generally believed to have executed Mussolini
Mussolini at the Prefecture in Milan on the afternoon of 25 April 1945 (believed to be the last photograph of him alive)
Luigi Longo (left) and Palmiro Togliatti at a Communist Party congress after the war