1945 ⟶ Mussolini Executed and Displayed

Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, are shot, and hang...
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1944
1945

🔪 Count Ciano Executed

Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister and Mussolini's son-in-law, is executed by Mussolini's revived Fascist government sympathizers.⟶
Count Ciano Executed (1944)
ItalyFascismMussoliniExecutionPolitical PurgeWorld War IIAxis Powers

💀 Mussolini Executed and Displayed

Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, are shot, and hanged by the feet upside down in Milan. Other members of his puppet government are also executed by Italian partisans and their bodies put on display.⟶
Mussolini Executed and Displayed (1945)
Benito MussoliniExecutionMilanClara PetacciItalian PartisansEnd of WarItalian Social RepublicPropagandaItalyDictatorship

👤 Mussolini Captured

Head of State for the Italian Social Republic, Benito Mussolini, heavily disguised, is captured in northern Italy while trying to escape to Switzerland.⟶
Benito MussoliniCaptureItalian Social RepublicNorthern ItalyPartisansResistanceEnd of WarItalyDictator