Mussolini-Bio

World History Biography of Mussolini Mussolini taught briefly and lived in Switzerland for two years to avoid military service. He achieved national fame for his opposition to the Libyan War and became editor of the Socialist daily Avanti in 1913. Soon after World War I began, Mussolini abruptly turned nationalist and joined the pro-Allied interventionists. The Socialist party, which opposed all participation in nationalist wars, expelled him. He then founded his own daily, the Popolo d'Italia. …

…months later by a daring German rescue party and became head of the Fascist puppet government set up in Italy by Hitler. During the German collapse on April of 1945, Mussolini was captured, tried in a summary court-martial, and shot with his mistress, Clara Petacci. Their bodies, brought to Milan, were hanged in a public square and buried in an unmarked grave. Mussolini's body was later removed, and in 1957 it was placed in his family's vault.