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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini 1883 - 1945

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born in 1883, and died at age 61 years old on April 28, 1945. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
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1883
Predappio, Province of Forlì-Cesena County, Emilia-Romagna, 47016, Italy
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Giulino in Azzano, Province of Como County, Lombardy, 22010, Italy
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  • Introduction

    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, known as "Il Duce", or 'The Leader', was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party. He ruled Italy as the prime minister from 1922 - 1925 democratically and until 1943 as a dictator. He is credited as inspiring several totalitarian rules including Adolf Hitler. As a dictator, he reduced unemployment and improved the railroad services, making the trains run on time. In the late 1930s, he teamed with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to form the Axis powers.
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    1883
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    Predappio, Province of Forlì-Cesena County, Emilia-Romagna 47016, Italy
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì in Romagna. In 1902, Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland, partly to avoid compulsory military service.

  • Nationality & Locations

    Italy & Switzerland.

  • Early Life & Education

    As a compromise between his parents, Mussolini was sent to a boarding school run by Salesian monks. After joining a new school, Mussolini achieved good grades, and qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901.

  • Religious Beliefs

    His mother was Catholic, his father wasn't part of a religious organization.

  • Professional Career

    Secretary of the labor party, office worker for the Socialist Party, Socialist newspaper editor of L'Avvenire del Lavoratore (The Future of the Worker), author, editor of the Socialist Party newspaper Avanti!, politician - including Prime Minister, and dictator of Italy.
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    1945

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    April 28, 1945
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    Execution by firing squad
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    Giulino in Azzano, Province of Como County, Lombardy 22010, Italy
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    Cimitero di San Cassiano in Predappio, Provincia di Forlì-Cesena County, Emilia-Romagna 47015, Italy
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  • Obituary

    From Wikipedia: On 25 April 1945, Allied troops were advancing into northern Italy, and the collapse of the Salò Republic was imminent. Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci set out for Switzerland, intending to board a plane and escape to Spain. Two days later on 27 April, they were stopped near the village of Dongo (Lake Como) by communist partisans named Valerio and Bellini and identified by the Political Commissar of the partisans' 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, Urbano Lazzaro. During this time, Petacci's brother posed as a Spanish consul. 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 next day, Mussolini and Petacci were both summarily shot, along with most of the members of their 15-man train, primarily ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic. The shootings took place in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra and were conducted by a partisan leader who used the nom de guerre Colonnello Valerio. His real identity is unknown, but conventionally he is thought to have been Walter Audisio, who always claimed to have carried out the execution, though another partisan controversially alleged that Colonnello Valerio was Luigi Longo, subsequently a leading communist politician in post-war Italy. Mussolini was killed two days before Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide. The RSI only survived for another four days before Mussolini's defence minister, Rodolfo Graziani–the lone Italian marshal who remained loyal to Fascism after 1943–surrendered its remains on 1 May.
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Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini, 1940
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Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini, 1940
A photo of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini riding in a car (probably a military parade) in Germany circa June 1940. Hitler and Mussolini were allies in World War Two.

How could people who were in charge of such atrocities look so happy and content?

Photo courtesy of the National Archives
Date & Place: in Munich Germany
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On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Some still dispute this fact but to us, suicide seemed to fit with his personality. He's shown here with Benito Mussolini, his ally and leader of Italy in WW2, who was executed 2 days earlier.
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Mussolini's Family
Mussolini was survived by his wife, Rachele Mussolini, two sons, Vittorio and Romano Mussolini, and his daughters Edda (the widow of Count Ciano) and Anna Maria. A third son, Bruno, was killed in an air accident while flying a Piaggio P.108 bomber on a test mission, on 7 August 1941. His oldest son, Benito Albino Mussolini, from his marriage with Ida Dalser, was ordered to stop declaring that Mussolini was his father and in 1935 forcibly committed to an asylum in Milan, where he was murdered on 26 August 1942 after repeated coma-inducing injections.[64] Alessandra Mussolini, daughter of Romano Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's fourth son, and of Anna Maria Scicolone, Sophia Loren's sister, has been a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Social Alternative movement, a deputy in the Italian lower chamber and served in the Senate as a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.
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Portrait of Mussolini in 1930
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Portrait of Mussolini in 1930
Portrait of Italian dictator Mussolini in 1930.
Date & Place: in Italy
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