Wow, something really special! call American reporter Daniel T. Brigham to a radio telephone in Bern, Switzerland. In the confusion of the last few days of the two worlds of the wolf, he first managed to connect with his colleagues in the editorial office of The New York Times from here. It is Sunday evening, April 29, 1945, and the morning edition of the newspaper will soon be printed. But that kind of jet will manage when you sleep.
The Allies of the Second World War have been tightening their grip for a long time, and the end of the war, at least in Europe, is just around the corner. Hours ago in Italy they even executed the fascist scientist Benito Mussolini. And thanks to Brigham, the whole world will soon learn how the disgraced dictator, who built a cult of personality and the image of a charismatic boy from the beginning, turned out in the end.
Together with his lover Claretta Petacciová and other members of his entourage, they blindfolded him and hung him by his feet in front of a petrol pump on the square in Milne. Even his own mother probably wouldn’t have recognized him at that moment. No one took a picture of a number of exposed bodies. Who, it is not known to this day. Dotyn knew Brigham and decided to send him the negatives.
In order for the newspaper to reach Bern at all, the photographer had to drive to the Italian-Vacarian border, put the package on the train and hope that it would reach customs. Ml tst. It was then up to Brigham to wake up the army censor in the middle of the night, give him a patina permit, and set off before dawn on the approximately two hundred kilometer journey to Eneva in the snow of the vineyards.
Only from there was it possible, through the Press Wireless service, to send the photos for a price. In the New York newsroom, pictures were taken at midnight that time, just before the set. The package contained two negatives: Vdce jumping on piles of corpses and Vdce hanging with the others upside down.
Associate non-editor Raymon H. McCaw immediately began changing the look of the front page. From the sampled weapons, he chose the one with a pile of tl. I think it’s the second best photo of the summer, right after the flag raising on Iwodi, he explained at the time. Mussolini killed. The dictator’s inglorious end. Some prime minister begged for his life if the Amerian was on the front page of his favorite newspaper, while they were investigating whether his profile picture was really the Italian Il Duce.
In the end, McCaw didn’t use the fascists on his thigh, but a day later they appeared in the British newspapers and today they are one of the symbols of the Duke’s fall. Although it took less than twenty years to get there, but once it started, events took a fast and wild turn.
Front page of the British newspaper Daily Herald with a photograph of the slain fascist scientist Benito Mussolini (May 1, 1945)
Silenced, spat on, helped, empowered
The founder of fascism, a fired socialist, a newspaperman and a two-time admirer of Master Jan Hus is eleven at the moment. Protunk with a typically shaved head, sharp features and flowing gestures is the best behind it all. Even Hitler’s puppet Republic of Sal in the north of Italy does not guarantee protection to Mussolini, who only at that time established a real brutal government and sent his son-in-law to death, among others.
And when he learns that the Nazis are starting to negotiate a capitulation, he runs away from the meeting with the partisans in his arms. He gets into the Alfa Romeo sedan, which he bought for his thirty-year-old lover Claretta, and tries to escape. Clem is Lake Como and then vcarsk border.
He is accompanied by a group of German soldiers and when they are stopped by the 52nd Partisan Brigade Luigi Clerici, he also pretends to be a German. I am wearing the uniform of a common soldier. But who does it want to blame? Always his TV sign every roll, every child. Mussolini has been working hard on this since the moment he came to power. And now he has created a cult of personality sr vaz.
During the inspection, he was discovered by the partisan nickname Bill and immediately arrested. It is April 27, 1945, and the Duke has only a few hours to live. Surprised, the two Italians do not know what is wrong with him, moreover, they are worried that they will come back with their trophy. Just like two years later, when the Nazis dragged Mussolini out of the mountains. Therefore, hide the scientist in a remote farmhouse for the night, and in the morning take him to the village of Giulino di Mezzegra along the Petacci bridge. There the two came to stand against the stone wall of the Villa Belmonte, and a moment later he overtook them.
The stalker was probably the partisan commander and communist Walter Audisio, also known as Colonel Valerio. To this day, there are conjectures surrounding the identity of Mussolini’s executioner, especially in Italy, where many people have come up with the story of how they killed the infamous leader of the country. So there are at least five versions of Mussolini’s last words, according to one of them, the duke begged for mercy and promised the whole i. But that’s probably just a lie. Sam Audisio explained that his machine gun and pistol had failed, so he took the weapon from the nearest comrade so that he could kill the horse. Young Claretta exclaimed: He must not die!
Colonel Valerio did not take his request into consideration because, as he had previously declared, he was authorized to carry out justice for the Italian people. The gripped dictator fell to his knees, his chin dropped to his chest and his body slumped to the ground. According to Audisio, he had the feeling that he was not going to kill a hunter, but a dexterous creature. Mussolini’s lover also died in revenge. In the following hours, the partisans throw the corpses onto the back of the van, along with a dozen other dead fascists, and take them back to Milno.
And that in the very symbolic square of Piazzale Loreto, where the fascists hung the bodies of fifteen slain fighters against the duke’s regime in front of the eyes of the public eight months ago. Hatred of Mussolini was huge and now it could finally burst to the surface. So far, people have been insulted by his TV on placards and photos in the news. They could have done it for real, here on the fifteenth square. The partisans dump the body on the ground and let the maddened crowd vent their anger.
Benito Mussolini rocked up to the city where his fascism was born last night. There was no break during his fall, capture and execution, and the morning epilogue here in Piazza Loreto was the most shocking, describes the NYT newspaper, which saw the body of the deceased authority from close proximity and spoke of it as one of the darkest moments of his life.
People insult Mussolini, throw vegetables at him, kick him in the head and elsewhere. Many are spitting on him, looking at his lifeless bed on piles of corpses and beyond. One of the local women then pulls out a pistol and makes sure that if the Duke isn’t already dead, he will be. Five stripes for my five murderous sons! call when it’s time to start. Partisans will wither at that moment. A disfigured fascist hangs by his legs in front of the Standard Esso gas station on the corner of Plaza de Janeiro and Buenos Aires Street. There is no crowd there.
In the photo, fascist MP Nicola Bombacci hung next to him, general Giuseppe Gelormini, duke Benito Mussolini, the lover and lover of the actor Claretta Petaccio, the secretary of the National Fascist Party Alessandro Pavolini and the president of the Italian Olympic Committee Achille Starace, but he did not stop there. She was also on the ground below them.
Duce’s lover has no bottom ass and gravity constantly pulls up her skirt. The priest Pollarolo soon stops the immoral floor and tightens the woman’s skirt with his own dog. According to Petaccio, twenty-nine years old Mussolini was in love with him when he was a young girl, she wrote him letters and was married, she threw herself head first into the relationship thanks to a chance meeting. She then stayed with her Ben until death, although the partisans took her life.
In Europe at that time, however, there was at least one hunter who definitely did not wish for the same fate. It is said that when Adolf Hitler learned of Mussolini’s death in his bunker, he declared: This will never happen to me. According to some historians, no one was determined to commit suicide anyway. He also killed himself with his wife Eva Braunová and left his friends to split, he wrote in his last will that he did not want to fall into the hands of the devil, he would only force a new theater organized for the entertainment of his hysterical masses.
Adolf Hitler (right) and Benito Mussolini at a meeting in Munich in 1938
When Mussolini was taken off his horse at the behest of the American army, his skin was swollen and swollen inhumanly. In the small town, even a pesto army photographer shot him in a romantic pose, as he was in an embrace with Petacciová. Then they were both buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery in Milne. However, the place of the duke’s final resting place could not be kept secret, so his grave was regularly vandalized by antifaists. And for a while, not to spare Mussolini, the mourners opened the grave, washed the remains and took them to an unknown place.
Almost three months after Mussolini, the ground collapsed, according to the History portal, with the fact that he eventually found himself in a dungeon outside the city. The remains were confiscated by the police. The location of the duke’s grave was then kept secret by the Italian government. And in 1957, the then Italian Prime Minister Adone Zoli, in an attempt to secure the votes of far-right voters, decided to hand over Mussolini’s bones to his widow Rachel. She was his primary mistress all the time, despite his adventures, and she bore him five children. In the end, she buried her body in the family tomb in Predappio, where the son of a metal worker and a craftswoman, Benito Mussolini, was once born.
In 1966, the last piece of the much-loved and then closed scientist came to Italy. An examined sample of Mussolini’s brain was sent to Amerian by the widows, who tested it for syphilis. The results on the prevalence of this sexually transmitted disease were unproven. Mussolini was the first one to start talking to me. He wanted to act like an irresistible temptress and a woman hunter, not what he really was.
