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Clara "Claretta" Petacci (Italian: [klaˈretta peˈtattʃi]; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution .
Mar 31, 2018 · 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.
Apr 28, 2015 · Mussolini stormed out of the palace and fled Milan with his 33-year-old mistress, Clara Petacci, in the 1939 Alfa Romeo sports car he had bought as a gift for his girlfriend.
She became forever associated with the Italian dictator. It’s time to take a look at the fascinating life of Mussolini’s mistress and how she went from a swooning teenager to one of the most important figures in the life of Italy’s most famous strongman.
Apr 2, 2022 · After Benito Mussolini was executed alongside his mistress Clara Petacci on April 28, 1945, their bodies were mutilated by the partisans who killed them. First, they threw vegetables at his corpse. Then they started beating and kicking it.
Nov 24, 2009 · On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
Nov 26, 2023 · The deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, had been executed on Saturday near Como, Italy. The bodies had then been brought by truck to the Piazzale...
MUSSOLINI and Claretta Petacci, his mistress, were captured by the Italian Partisans on Friday, April 27, 1945, at Dongo, Province of Como. They were shot the next day on a deserted country road...
Apr 28, 2015 · Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, attempted to escape to the north. They were foiled when a partisan known only as Eduardo found Mussolini in the town of Dongo and sent men to arrest him...
Mar 22, 2017 · Over the last decade a magnificent new source has become available to historians in the form of a diary composed by Mussolini’s last lover, Claretta Petacci, twenty-nine years his junior and executed with him in April 1945.
