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
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.
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.
Walter Audisio
…resistance movement during World War II, Audisio was involved in the death of Benito Mussolini, and personally executed the dictator and his mistress Clara Petacci according to the generally accepted account of the event. Walter Audisio was born in Alessandria, in the north-western Piedmont region of Italy, in a…
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