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The CLNAI subsequently announced, on the day after his death, that Mussolini had been executed on its orders. [20] In any event, Longo instructed a communist partisan of the General Command, Walter Audisio, to go immediately to Dongo to carry out the order. According to Longo, he did so with the words "go and shoot him". [31]
The next year, on April 7, 1926, Violet Gibson shot a pistol at Mussolini, which grazed his nose. He was bandaged and continued on to give his scheduled speech. [2] Gibson, the daughter of the Irish Lord Chancellor, was nearly lynched, later jailed, and spent the remainder of her life in an asylum. [6]
In the opening moments of Sky’s new, eight-part biopic Mussolini: Son of the Century, we hear the man himself speak.“For 20 years you adored me and feared me, as a god. Then you madly hated me ...
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During World War II, the Gran Sasso raid (codenamed Unternehmen Eiche, German pronunciation: [ʊntɐˌneːmən ˈaɪ̯çə] ⓘ, literally "Operation Oak", by the German military [1]) on 12 September 1943 was a successful operation by German paratroopers and Waffen-SS commandos to help the deposed Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini escape from custody in the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif.
Mussolini’s bunker at Villa Torlonia in Rome was built nearly 20 feet underground and clad in 13-feet thick cement walls. Construction started in December 1942 and was not quite finished when ...
Mussolini regarded the war against Britain and France as a life-or-death struggle between opposing ideologies—fascism and the "plutocratic and reactionary democracies of the west"—describing the war as "the struggle of the fertile and young people against the sterile people moving to the sunset; it is the struggle between two centuries and ...