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Giulino (also known as Giulino di Mezzegra) is an Italian frazione of the Comune of Mezzegra, in the province of Como. Since 21 January 2014, both Giulino and Mezzegra are included in the comune of Tremezzina.
- Inside Benito Mussolini’s Rise to Power
- A Transformation Into A Brutal Dictator
- How IL Duce Entered World War II
- The Downfall of Benito Mussolini
- How Did Benito Mussolini Die?
- How Mussolini’s Corpse Was Mutilated After His Death
- The Aftermath of Mussolini’s Death
Benito Mussolini took control of Italy thanks to the pen just as much as the sword. Born July 29, 1883, in Dovia di Predappio, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was intelligent and inquisitive from an early age. In fact, he first set out to be a teacher but soon decided that career wasn’t for him. Still, he voraciously read the works of great Europe...
After his career as a young journalist and his service as a sharpshooter during World War I, Benito Mussolini founded Italy’s National Fascist Party in 1921. Backed by increasing numbers of supporters and strongarm paramilitary squads dressed in black, the Fascist leader calling himself “Il Duce” soon became known for fiery speeches fueled by his e...
Five years after the Ethiopian invasion, Benito Mussolini watched from the sidelines as Hitler invaded France. In his own mind, Il Duce felt it should be Italy fighting the French. Undoubtedly, however, the German military was bigger, better equipped, and had better leaders. Thus Mussolini could only watch, align himself with Hitler fully, and decl...
Facing pressure on the home front due to increasingly stressful wartime conditions and rebelliousness from within his own ranks, Benito Mussolini was removed from office by the king and the Grand Council in July of 1943. The Allies had re-taken northern Africa away from Italy and Sicily was now in Allied hands as they prepared to invade Italy itsel...
By the spring of 1945, the war in Europe was over and Italy was broken. The south was in ruins as Allied troops advanced. The country was battered, and it was, many thought, all Il Duce’s fault. But arresting Il Duce was no longer a viable course of action. Even though Hitler was surrounded by Allied troops in Berlin, Italy didn’t want to take any ...
The night after Benito Mussolini’s death, a cargo truck roared into Milan’s Square of the Fifteen Martyrs. A cadre of 10 men unceremoniously dumped 18 bodies out of the back. They were those of Mussolini, the Petaccis, and the 15 suspected Fascists. It was the same square where, a year earlier, Mussolini’s men had gunned down 15 anti-Fascists in a ...
Word of Benito Mussolini’s death spread quickly. Hitler, for one, heard the news on the radio and vowed to not have his corpse desecrated in the same fashion as Mussolini’s. People in Hitler’s inner circle reported that he said, “This will never happen to me.” In his final will, scrawled on a piece of paper, Hitler said, “I do not wish to fall into...
- William Delong
Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe.
Apr 28, 2015 · Learn how Italy's wartime dictator died and what happened to his corpse afterward. Find out how he was captured, executed, mutilated, buried and exhumed by his enemies.
Learn how the former Italian dictator and fascist leader was executed by Italian partisans in 1945 after his regime collapsed. Explore his rise and fall, his cult of personality, and his role in World War II.
Just north of Lenno on Lake Como, in the town of Mezzegra, take a left at the main intersection in town (signposted for Mezzerba, Bonzango, Giulino, and Pola), then immediately take the left fork, which is Via 24 Maggio.
Apr 26, 2018 · Learn about the circumstances of Mussolini’s execution by partisans in 1945, the reaction of the Allies and the public, and the conspiracy theories that have persisted for decades. The Week...
