Piazzale loreto e mussolini biography

death of Italian fascist dictator

45°58′52″N9°12′12″E / °N °E / ; 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 , in the final days of World War II in Europe.

The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan. However, since the end of the war, the circumstances of Mussolini's death, and the identity of his executioner, have been subjects of continuing dispute and controversy in Italy.

Piazzale loreto e mussolini biography

In , Mussolini took his country into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany, but was soon met with military failure. By the autumn of , he was reduced to being the leader of a German puppet state in northern Italy, and was faced with the Allied advance from the south, and an increasingly violent internal conflict with the partisans.

In April , with the Allies break