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The corpse of Mussolini (second from left) next to Petacci (middle) and other executed fascists in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, 1945. In the evening of 28 April, the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed fascists were loaded onto a van and transported south to Milan.
The Verona Trial (Italian: processo di Verona) was a show trial held in January 1944 in the Italian Social Republic (RSI) to punish the 19 members of the Grand Council of Fascism who had voted for Benito Mussolini's removal from power in the Kingdom of Italy. Six of them had been captured by Mussolini's forces and were present for the trial.
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. On 27 April 1945 the high command of the CVL entrusted him with the execution of Benito Mussolini, who had been arrested on that day by Communist partisans near Dongo.
Arrested on the orders of the King, Mussolini was rescued by the Germans and became the puppet Head of State of the Italian Social Republic (regime under control of Nazi Germany) in northern Italy. Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans on 28 April 1945, while attempting to flee to Spain. Pietro Badoglio was Marshal of the Army.
In February 1939, Mussolini declared that a state's power is "proportional to its maritime position," asserting that Italy was a "prisoner in the Mediterranean," surrounded by British-controlled territories. [139] Italian Empire in 1939. The new pro-German course was controversial.
Fascist Italy (Italian: Italia Fascista) is a term which is used in historiography to describe the Kingdom of Italy when it was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator.
September 8, 1943: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies, orders Italian forces to "cease all acts of hostility against the Anglo-American forces wherever they may be met" September 12, 1943: Former Italian Premier Benito Mussolini freed from prison by Nazi raid Kingdom of Italy leaves the Axis September 23, 1943:"Italian Social Republic" created by Germany in ...
This was the last execution in Italy for common crimes, while the next day there was the last execution for war crimes (against members of the National Republican Guard). The Italian Constitution , approved on December 27, 1947, and in force since January 1, 1948, completely abolished the death penalty for all common military and civil crimes ...