28 April 1945 A.D. Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini & Mistress Clara Petacci Killed & Hung by Italian Partisans
28 April 1945 A.D. Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini & Mistress Clara Petacci Killed & Hung by Italian Partisans (Hung Upside Down 1st in Milan, Later in Rome...Just Up the Way from the Colisseum) Editors. “ 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 U.S. Military History. N.d. https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/april-28/ . Accessed 27 Apr 2015. 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. The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy during the German occupation toward the close of the war. As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, defeat of the Axis powers all but certa...