What Hppened to Mussolini after Italy fell in wwII?

Answer 1

As German defenses in Italy collapsed and the Allies advanced rapidly northward, the Italian Communists of the partisan leadership determined upon Mussolini's execution. Rejecting the advice of various advisers, including the elder of his two surviving sons--his second son had been killed in the war--Mussolini refused to consider flying out of the country, and he made for the Valtellina, intending to make a final stand in the mountains; but only a handful of men could be found to follow him. He tried to cross the frontier disguised as a German soldier in a convoy of trucks retreating toward Innsbruck (in Austria). But he was recognized and, together with his mistress Claretta Petacci, who had insisted on remaining with him to the end, he was shot and killed. Their bodies were hung, head downward, in the Piazza Loreto in Milan.

Answer 2

During the last days of the war in Italy, Dictator Benito Mussolini attempted to escape the advancing Allied Army by hiding in a German convoy headed toward the Alps. Partisans stopped and searched the convoy at Dongo. They found him in the back of a truck wearing a private's overcoat over his striped general's pants. The partisans took him prisoner and he was later joined by his mistress, Clara Petacci, at Mezzegra. The council of partisan leaders, lead by the Communists, secretly decided to execute Mussolini and 15 leading Fascists in retaliation. They were executed on April 29, 1945, and their bodies were hung at an Esso gas station in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan.

Answer 3

Benito Mussolini was caught by the Communists and hanged upside down.

Hanging a man upside down is a symbolic statement that he is a traitor, in the culture of northern Italy. You can see the image of the Hanged Man suspended upside down in any deck of tarot cards, since the tarot is a product of northern Italian Renaissance culture.

Few Americans know that Mussolini was featured on the cover of TIME, and that a special issue of FORTUNE was devoted to praising the accomplishments of his Fascist regime. Hitler's Nazi Party emulated a lot from Mussolini, and so did Americans in that era.

Answer 4

Mussolini was captured in 1943 and confined in a mountain hotel, the campo hotel at Gran Sasso, and Hitler ordered Waffen SS commando Otto Skorzeny to perform a commando type rescue. SS commando Otto Skorzeny rescued Mussolini in a daring glider mission. In 1945 Mussolini was caught again trying to filter out of Italy, he and his girlfriend were captured by communist partisans. He was shot along with his girlfriend and both bodies were hung upside down on a street lamp.

Answer 5

The Italian electorate hung him and his mistress (do no longer remeber her call) the different way up and chucked rocks at their bodies. This supposedly befell a splash in the previous Hitler and his new spouse shot themselves. without extra Nazi help Mussolini grow to be left as a purpose to his people who have been a splash pissed for being made an Axis united states that suffered great allied and Nazi bombing.

Answer 6

He tried to get out of Italy, but he was caught and was killed by Italian Communist partisans. Afterwards, he was hung upside down at a Milan square to show that the dictator had died.

Answer 7

The Repubblica Sociale Italiana
Main article: Italian Social Republic
About two months after he was stripped of power, Mussolini was rescued by the Germans in Operation Oak. This was a spectacular raid planned by General Kurt Student and carried out by Otto Skorzeny. The Germans re-located Mussolini to northern Italy and he set up a new a Fascist state, the Italian Social Republic (Repubblica Sociale Italiana, RSI).

Mussolini lived in Gargnano on Lago di Garda in Lombardy during this period. But he was little more than a puppet under the protection of his liberators--indeed, he was little more than the gauleiter of Lombardy. He also executed some of the Fascist leaders who had abandoned him. Those executed included his son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano. As Head of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Italian Social Republic, Mussolini used much of his time to write his memoirs. Along with his autobiographical writings of 1928, these writings would be combined and published by Da Capo Press as My Rise and Fall.




On April 27, 1945, in the afternoon, near the village of Dongo (Lake Como), just before the Allied armies reached Milan, as they headed for Chiavenna to board a plane to escape to Austria, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were caught by Italian communist partisans. After several unsuccessful attempts to take them to Como they were brought to Mezzegra. They spent their last night in the house of the De Maria family.

The day after, April 28, Mussolini and his mistress were both shot, along with their fifteen-man train, mostly ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic. The shootings took place in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra, and, at least according to the official version of events, were conducted by "Colonnello Valerio" (Walter Audisio), the communist partisan commander after being given the order to kill Mussolini, by the National Liberation Committee.[17] However, a witness, Bruno Giovanni Lonati - another partisan in the Socialist-Communist Garibaldi brigades though not a Communist - abruptly confessed in the 1990s to have killed Mussolini and Claretta with an Italian-English officer from the British secret services, called 'John'. Lonati's version has never been confirmed, but neither has it been debunked; a polygraph test on Lonati proved inconclusive.[18][verification needed]

On April 29 the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress were found hung upside down on meat hooks in Piazzale Loreto (Milan), along with those of other fascists, to show the population the dictator was dead. This was both to discourage any fascists to continue the fight and an act of revenge for the hanging of many partisans in the same place by Axis authorities. The corpse of the deposed leader became subject to ridicule and abuse by many who felt oppressed by the former dictator's policies.

Mussolini's body was eventually taken down and later buried in an unmarked grave in a Milan cemetery until the 1950s, when his body was moved back to Predappio. It was stolen briefly in the late 1950s by neo-fascists, then again returned to Predappio. Here he was buried in a crypt (the only posthumous honor granted to Mussolini; his tomb is flanked by marble fasces and a large idealized marble bust of himself sits above the tomb.)

Answer 8

He was shot by the Italian people, and hung up by his legs like a slaughtered pig.

Answer 9

With his mistress, he was hanged upside down until he died. That was done by his own people, the Italians. It was a slow, painful death for El Duce who thought he was greater than life itself!!

Chow!!

Answer 10

A picture is worth 1,000 words ... or more!
http://www.wandea.org.pl/IMAGES/mussolini_1.jpg