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Browse 560 mussolini death photo photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. View of the mutilated bodies of Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, propped up against a marble wall in Milan, Italy, World War II. The...
- Inside Benito Mussolini’s Rise to Power
- A Transformation Into A Brutal Dictator
- How IL Duce Entered World War II
- The Downfall of Benito Mussolini
- How Did Benito Mussolini Die?
- How Mussolini’s Corpse Was Mutilated After His Death
- The Aftermath of Mussolini’s Death
Benito Mussolini took control of Italy thanks to the pen just as much as the sword. Born July 29, 1883, in Dovia di Predappio, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was intelligent and inquisitive from an early age. In fact, he first set out to be a teacher but soon decided that career wasn’t for him. Still, he voraciously read the works of great Europe...
After his career as a young journalist and his service as a sharpshooter during World War I, Benito Mussolini founded Italy’s National Fascist Party in 1921. Backed by increasing numbers of supporters and strongarm paramilitary squads dressed in black, the Fascist leader calling himself “Il Duce” soon became known for fiery speeches fueled by his e...
Five years after the Ethiopian invasion, Benito Mussolini watched from the sidelines as Hitler invaded France. In his own mind, Il Duce felt it should be Italy fighting the French. Undoubtedly, however, the German military was bigger, better equipped, and had better leaders. Thus Mussolini could only watch, align himself with Hitler fully, and decl...
Facing pressure on the home front due to increasingly stressful wartime conditions and rebelliousness from within his own ranks, Benito Mussolini was removed from office by the king and the Grand Council in July of 1943. The Allies had re-taken northern Africa away from Italy and Sicily was now in Allied hands as they prepared to invade Italy itsel...
By the spring of 1945, the war in Europe was over and Italy was broken. The south was in ruins as Allied troops advanced. The country was battered, and it was, many thought, all Il Duce’s fault. But arresting Il Duce was no longer a viable course of action. Even though Hitler was surrounded by Allied troops in Berlin, Italy didn’t want to take any ...
The night after Benito Mussolini’s death, a cargo truck roared into Milan’s Square of the Fifteen Martyrs. A cadre of 10 men unceremoniously dumped 18 bodies out of the back. They were those of Mussolini, the Petaccis, and the 15 suspected Fascists. It was the same square where, a year earlier, Mussolini’s men had gunned down 15 anti-Fascists in a ...
Word of Benito Mussolini’s death spread quickly. Hitler, for one, heard the news on the radio and vowed to not have his corpse desecrated in the same fashion as Mussolini’s. People in Hitler’s inner circle reported that he said, “This will never happen to me.” In his final will, scrawled on a piece of paper, Hitler said, “I do not wish to fall into...
- William Delong
Browse 476 death of benito mussolini photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. The bodies of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci, his mistress, hang from the roof of a gasoline station in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, after they had...
Oct 25, 2022 · Media in category "Death of Benito Mussolini". The following 19 files are in this category, out of 19 total. Assoluzione Fascisti Dongo.jpg 858 × 463; 269 KB. Benito mussolini house.jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 1.81 MB. Beretta Lampredi.jpg 1,229 × 897; 447 KB. Cadaveri piazzale Loreto.jpg 482 × 342; 37 KB.
Reproductions of news photographs of the public hanging of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci on April 29, 1945 in Milan. Includes close-up views of heads; corpses hanging upside down for public display.
Browse 42 benito mussolini italian fascist leader executed photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Benito Mussolini in a portrait of propaganda. The Gran Sasso raid was the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in September 1943, during World War II. Italians Commemorate The Death of Mussolini.
