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appalachiablue

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2. Shocking, apparent to me too. Tx for posting. IL Duce's death April 1945, as mom told us.

Reply to tanyev (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 12, 2022, 10:09 AM

Sep 2022

- Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci were captured and executed by partisans in a village in Northern Italy on April 28, 1945 while trying to escape to neutral Switzerland as the war in Europe was ending.

Their corpses were hung upside down and put on display in a public square in Milan where crowds abused them. Hitler was supposedly so affected by the brutal execution that he chose to die by his own hands two days later in Berlin then under seige by Russian forces.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini

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Wow, I did not know that "I don't care" was a Fascist slogan. tanyev Sep 2022 #1

Shocking, apparent to me too. Tx for posting. IL Duce's death April 1945, as mom told us. appalachiablue Sep 2022 #2