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Saturday 28th of April 1945 (-) — Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Mussolini is executed by Walter Audisio with a machine gun In the evening the bodies of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other executed Fascists were loaded onto a van and trucked south to Milan. On arriving in the city in the early hours of 29 April, they were dumped on the ground in the Piazzale Loreto. The corpses were pelted with vegetables, spat at, urinated on, shot at and kicked. Mussolini's face was disfigured by beatings. After a while the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were hoisted up on to the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station, and hung upside down on meat hooks. Saturday 28th of April 1945 (-) — Mistress of Benito Mussolini Clara Petacci is executed by Walter Audisio with a machine gun The next day the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were hoisted up on to the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station on Piazzale Loreto in Milano and hung upside down on meat hooks.
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