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
Walter Audisio
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Walter Audisio, also known by his nom-de-guerre Colonel Valerio, was an Italian partisan and communist politician. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, Audisio was involved
Clara Petacci
…interred in the family tomb at the Campo Verano cemetery on the 16th. Following the war, Petacci's family began civil and criminal court cases against Walter Audisio for Petacci's unlawful killing. After a lengthy legal process, an investigating judge eventually closed the case in 1967. Audisio was acquitted of…
Official Senate portrait, 1963
Audisio in 1945
The MAS-38 submachine gun used by Audisio to execute Mussolini. It belonged to political commissar Michele Moretti, who lent it to Audisio after the latter's weapon jammed.