THE TERRIBLE DEATH OF BENITO MUSSOLINI, THE DEPOSED ITALIAN FASCIST DICTATOR..
The death of BenitoMussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945, in the final days of worldwar2 in Europe, when he was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy. 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. Related : The Terrible Execution Of Ethiopian woman Who Was Hanged Among Seven Others. In 1940, Mussolini took his country into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany but soon was met with military failure. By the autumn of 1943, 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 Ap...