Brief Look at Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883 in Predappio. The
son of a blacksmith he was largely self-educated. He became a
schoolteacher and a socialist journalist in northern Italy. In 1910
he married Rachele Guidi who bore his five children. Mussolini was
jailed in 1911 for his opposition to Italy’s war in Libya.
Soon after his release in 1912 he became editor of the
socialist newspaper in Milan, “Avanti!”. When WWI began in 1914
Mussolini advocated Italy’s entrance into the war on the …showed first 85 words of 942 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 942 total…resignation and put him in military custody. German’s
rescued the now sickly Mussolini and put him in control of northern
Italy, still under German occupation, as a German puppet. In the
last few days of the war Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci,
tried to escape to Switzerland. On April 28, 1945 Mussolini and his
mistress were found by Italian partisans and shot at Giulino di
Mezzegra near lake Como. In light of Italy’s wartime disasters few
Italians regretted the death of their demonic Duce.
