Clara Petacci
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Clara "Claretta" Petacci was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution.
The bodies of Mussolini (second from the left) and Petacci (recognizable by her skirt) displayed at Piazzale Loreto. The first corpse on the left is Nicola Bombacci. The last two on the right are Alessandro Pavolini and Achille Starace.
The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci in Piazzale Loreto
Claretta Petacci's tomb at the Campo Verano cemetery in Rome
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
Clara Petacci
…Petacci (Italian: ; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution. Daughter of Persichetti (1888–1962) and the physician Francesco Saverio Petacci (1883–1970), Clara Petacci was born into a privileged and religious…
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