Benito Mussolini.
Date Submitted: 09/21/2003 22:43:12
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1412 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1412 words)
Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883 outside the village of Dovia di Predappio in the Northeastern Italian province of Forli. He had one sister and one brother. They always fought and argued over little petty things with each other. His sister name was Edvige and his brother's name was Armaldo. His mother Rosa Malteni was a well respect and appreciated schoolteacher. His father Allesandro Mussolini was both a blacksmith and a committee socialist. He received …
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…including his son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano. Just before the allied armies reached Milan, the Italians partisans caught Mussolini, along with his mistress Clara Petacci, as he tried to take refuge in Switzerland.
On April 28, 1945, the German forces collapsed. Mussolini and Clara try to flee towards the border but the Italian underground discovered them at Lake Como and shot him and Clara. They took the bodies to Milan and they hung Mussolini and Clara by their ankles.
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