Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, “Il Duce,” is executed by communist partisans after being captured while attempting to flee to Switzerland on April 28, 1945, in Giulino di Mezzegra, northern Italy.
He was shot alongside his mistress, Clara Petacci, his body was later displayed at Milan's Piazzale Loreto, where it was hung upside down and mutilated by a hostile crowd. More
