![The bodies of some fascist leaders are hanged by their feet in downtown Milan's Piazzale Loreto in this picture taken fifty years ago, on April 28, 1945, the day after the liberation The bodies of some fascist leaders are hanged by their feet in downtown Milan's Piazzale Loreto in this picture taken fifty years ago, on April 28, 1945, the day after the liberation](https://l450v.alamy.com/450vit/2myrjnn/the-bodies-of-some-fascist-leaders-are-hanged-by-their-feet-in-downtown-milans-piazzale-loreto-in-this-picture-taken-fifty-years-ago-on-april-28-1945-the-day-after-the-liberation-of-milan-at-center-face-to-camera-is-benito-mussolini-who-was-killed-the-same-day-in-dongo-by-the-como-lake-while-trying-to-escape-and-whose-body-was-taken-to-milan-to-be-exposed-on-the-same-square-where-the-bodies-of-15-resistance-fighters-were-left-as-a-warning-to-the-population-in-august-1944-claretta-petacci-mussolinis-mistress-is-hanged-at-the-right-of-the-duce-ap-photo-2myrjnn.jpg)
The bodies of some fascist leaders are hanged by their feet in downtown Milan's Piazzale Loreto in this picture taken fifty years ago, on April 28, 1945, the day after the liberation
![mangled bodies of Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, lie on a public square, in Milan on 28 Apr 1945. | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories mangled bodies of Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, lie on a public square, in Milan on 28 Apr 1945. | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories](https://49fe30bb3aa7406c16dc-5c968119d095dc32d807923c59347cc2.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/2007.048.033_1.jpg)
mangled bodies of Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, lie on a public square, in Milan on 28 Apr 1945. | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories
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Image of Milano, 29/05/1945 Corpo del Duce Benito Mussolini, sua compagna Clara by Unknown photographer, (20th century)
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