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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 World War II in Europe.
After Benito Mussolini was executed alongside his mistress Clara Petacci on April 28, 1945, their bodies were mutilated by the partisans who killed them. First, they threw vegetables at his corpse. Then they started beating and kicking it.
On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
This Day In History: 04/28/1945 - Benito Mussolini Executed. By April 25, 1945, however, the Third Reich was quickly losing its grip on northern Italy. With his stronghold of Milan teetering...
It was all over: Benito Mussolini was dead by about 4:20 pm. The two men who had been posted at the farmhouse were told to guard the bodies until they were picked up. The others climbed into the Fiat to return to Dongo.
The next day, their captors brought the pair to the small town of Giulino de Mezzegra on the shores of Lake Como and executed them in a hail of machine gun fire. Then, the final indignity: the posthumous desecration.
On April 28, 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress were executed in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. While the identity of the individual who shot the pair with a submachine gun remains unknown, it’s believed to have been Walter Audisio, a Communist partisan.