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, 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
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.
Death of Benito Mussolini
…Mussolini's situation became untenable. On 25 April he fled Milan, where he had been based, and headed towards the Swiss border. He and his mistress, Clara 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…
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