WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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The Italian people killed him and mutilated his body.
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He rebuilt Italy.
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He was imprisoned for the rest of his life.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe, when he was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Then came actual invasion, of Sicily in July 1943 and the Italian mainland in September. The former led to Mussolini’s overthrow and imprisonment; the latter to the surrender of Italy, even though German troops soon occupied the entire country and carried on the fight against the Allies from Italian soil.
Detailed explanation-3: -In April 1945 Mussolini and his government fled to Milan, and later, disguised as a German soldier, he attempted to cross the border to Switzerland. Discovered by Communist partisans, he was shot in a small town on Lake Como.