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Giulino, más conocido como Giulino di Mezzegra, es una fracción de la comuna de Mezzegra, en la provincia de Como, región de Lombardía, Italia con 50 habitantes. El pueblo ha pasado a la historia porque es el lugar donde Benito Mussolini y su amante Claretta Petacci fueron ejecutados el 28 de abril de 1945.
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.
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Background
Mussolini had been Italy's fascist leader since 1922, first as prime minister and, following his seizure of dictatorial powers in 1925, with the title Il Duce. In June 1940, he took the country into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, Mussolini was deposed and put under arrest; Italy then signed the Armistice of Cassibilewith the Allies in the following September. Shortly after the Armistice, Mussolini was rescued...
18–27 April 1945
On 18 April 1945, Mussolini left Gargnano, a village near Salò where he had been residing, and moved, with his entire government, to Milan and based himself in the city's prefecture. The purpose of the move appears to have been to prepare for final defeat. His new location would put him in closer proximity to the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Schuster, whom he hoped to use as an intermediary to negotiate with the Allies and the partisans. Additionally, it was better placed for an escape to th...
Capture and arrest
On 27 April 1945, a group of local communist partisans attacked the convoy in which Mussolini and Petacci were travelling, near the village of Dongo on the north western shore of Lake Como and forced it to halt. The convoy included a number of other Italian fascist leaders. The partisans, led by Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle and Urbano Lazzaro, recognised one of the fascists, but not Mussolini at this stage. They made the Germans hand over all the Italians in exchange for allowing the Germa...
Although several conflicting versions and theories of how Mussolini and Petacci died were put forward after the war, the account of Walter Audisio, or at least its essential components, remains the most credible and is sometimes referred to in Italy as the "official version". It was largely confirmed by an account provided by Aldo Lampredi and the ...
During his dictatorship, representations of Mussolini's body—for example pictures of him engaged in physical labour either bare-chested or half-naked—formed a central part of fascist propaganda. His body remained a potent symbol after his death, causing it to be either revered by supporters or treated with contempt and disrespect by opponents, and ...
Outside of Italy, Audisio's version of how Mussolini was executed has largely been accepted and is uncontroversial. However, within Italy, the subject has been a matter of extensive debate and dispute since the late 1940s to the present and numerous theories of how Mussolini died have proliferated. At least 12 different individuals have been identi...
"The Killers of Mussolini" (1959)28 de abr. de 2015 · This Day In History: 04/28/1945 - Benito Mussolini Executed. By April 25, 1945, however, the Third Reich was quickly losing its grip on northern Italy. With his stronghold of Milan teetering on ...
2 de abr. de 2022 · Updated March 27, 2023. On April 28, 1945, disgraced fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was brutally executed by Italian partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. When Benito Mussolini, the tyrannical ruler of Fascist Italy before and during World War II, was executed on April 28, 1945, it was only the beginning.
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20 de ago. de 2021 · Mussolini and Petacci were taken to the lakeside town of Giulino the following day and executed by firing squad. Now it was time for an oppressed people to get their reprisals. The bodies of the dictator and his mistress were then taken to Milan, where they were strung up by their feet outside a gas station in the city's Piazzale Loreto.
28 de abr. de 2016 · Giulino di Mezzegra where his execution was carried out. Benito Mussolini, the dictator who ruled Italy for 21 years until he was deposed in 1943, was killed by Italian partisans on this day in 1945, at the village of Giulino di Mezzegra on the shore of Lake Como.
