Did Communists capture and hang Mussolini after Christians?
Question asked:
“Communists captured, shot, and hung Mussolini after Christians put him in power.”
Summary
Mussolini was captured by Italian partisan forces that included communists, then shot and his body was displayed hanging upside down in Milan. He was never placed in power by Christians; his rise to power was through his own fascist movement and the support of the Italian monarchy and elite, not a Christian initiative.
Sources 60 searched
- Italian partisans kill Mussolini – archive, 1945 | Italy | The Guardian
On 28 April 1945, the fascist dictator, his mistress and 12 members of his cabinet were executed in a village near Lake Como. See how the Guardian reported events ... Milan, 29 April Mussolini, with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and 12 members ...
- Partisans Carry Out Speedy Justice | Italy | The Guardian
Mussolini, with his mistress Clara Petacci, and twelve members of his Cabinet, were executed by partisans in a village on Lake Como yesterday afternoon, after being arrested in an attempt to cross the Swiss frontier.
- Mussolini shot | Italy | The Guardian
The Italian partisans have carried ... been exhibited in public squares in Como and Milan. The executions were apparently carried out near Como by shooting in the back....
- Last Days of Mussolini; Last Days of Mussolini - The New York Times
Led across the plaza to the municipio, ... why he had not shot himself: "Because I still have something to say to the world." Again: "I've been betrayed nine times and the tenth time by Hitler."...
- Walter Audisio Dies in Italy; Partisan Executed Mussolini - The New York Times
ROME, Oct. 12 — Walter Audisio, the Communist partisan who claimed credit for the execution of Italy's World War II Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, died here last night at the age of 64.
- Death of Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia
Petacci joined Mussolini at 2:30 ... to the Communist Party in Milan. On the evening of Mussolini's capture, Sandro Pertini, the Socialist partisan leader in northern Italy, announced his arrest on Radio Milano LibertĂ : The head of this association of delinquents, Mussolini, while yellow with rancour and fear and trying to cross the Swiss frontier, has been arrested. He must be handed over to a tribunal of the people so it can judge him ...
- Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia
Mussolini's familiarity with Marxist literature reflected itself in his quoting even from obscure works. During this period Mussolini considered himself an "authoritarian communist" and a Marxist and he described Marx as "the greatest of all theorists of socialism".
- Benito Mussolini | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Mussolini was deposed by Italian King Victor Emmanuel III in 1943 and executed by communist partisans in 1945.
- The Last Three Days of Mussolini - The Atlantic
ON THE following day when the arrest of Mussolini and his Ministers became widely known, stories of the circumstances surrounding his capture were circulated in the countryside near-by and in Como and Milan. Almost all of these were untruthful. The newspaper reports were also far from authentic — even the locality in which he was captured was given incorrectly.
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