Italian Social Republic
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The Italian Social Republic, known prior to December 1943 as the National Republican State of Italy, but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò, was a German puppet state with limited diplomatic
Benito Mussolini rescued by German troops from his prison in Campo Imperatore on 12 September 1943
Italian Social Republic propaganda poster saying: "Germany is truly your friend", by Gino Boccasile (1944)
German Tiger I tank in front of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument in Rome in February 1944.
Mussolini inspecting fortified positions, 1944
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