Hitler's death: On 30 April, as the Battle of Berlin raged above him, realizing that all was lost and not wishing to suffer Mussolini's fate, German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Führerbunker along with Eva Braun, his long-term mistress whom he had married less than 40 hours before their joint suicide.

She really was Mussolini's mistress and was very involved in the cultural shaping of Italy's art movements.

Mussolini's body and that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, had been strung up by their heels.

* Margherita Sarfatti, one of Mussolini's earlier mistresses

Amongst these, world-renowned physicists Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi ( whose wife was Jewish ), Bruno Pontecorvo, Bruno Rossi, Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematicians Federigo Enriques and Guido Fubini and even the fascist propaganda director, art critic and journalist Margherita Sarfatti, who was one of Mussolini's mistresses.

Margherita Sarfatti ( April 8, 1880, Venice — October 30, 1961, Cavallasca ) was a Jewish Italian journalist, art critic, patron, collector, socialite, a prominent propaganda adviser of the National Fascist Party, and one of Benito Mussolini's mistresses.

Il Duce's Other Woman: The Untold Story of Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's Jewish Mistress, 1993.

* Michele Sarfatti, From Equality to Persecution: The Jews in Mussolini's Italy ( Madison, WI, 2006 ) ( George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History ).

* Michele Sarfatti, The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution ( Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 ) ( Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History ).

Mussolini dictated parts of the text to his brother Arnaldo Mussolini who handed the manuscripts, together with other material supplied by Margarita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover, to Richard Washburn Child ( the former American Ambassador to Italy ) who together with Luigi Barzini, Jr. served as a ghostwriter for the autobiography, mainly aimed at readers in the USA.

It was about the real-life Bedouin leader Omar Mukhtar ( Quinn ), who fought Benito Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of Libya.

Quinn played the real-life Bedouin leader Omar Mukhtar who fought Benito Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of Libya.

After the Verona trial sentence, a Fascist firing squad, at a shooting range in Verona on 11 January 1944, executed Ciano and others ( including Emilio De Bono and Giovanni Marinelli ) who had voted for Mussolini's ousting.

Louis ' defeat of Carnera, who symbolized Benito Mussolini's regime in the popular eye, was seen as a victory for the international community, particularly among African Americans, who were sympathetic to Ethiopia, which was undergoing a territorial dispute with Italy.

They displayed his rejection of liberalism and the modernizing goals of the 1848 Wallachian revolution ( perceived as " an abstract apology of Mankind " and " ape-like imitation of Europe "), as well as for democracy itself ( accusing it of " managing to crush all attempts at national renaissance ", and later praising Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy on the grounds that, according to Eliade, " Italy, he who thinks for himself is promoted to the highest office in the shortest of times ").

In 1937, Hugo Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia ( Ethiopia ), joining his father who was working there following the conquest of that country by Benito Mussolini's Italy.

Evola was one of a number of right-wing ideologues who opposed Benito Mussolini's Lateran Accords with the Roman Catholic Church and rejected the Fascist party's nationalism and its focus on mass movement mob politics ; he hoped to influence the regime toward his own variation on fascist racial theories and his " Tradionalist " philosophy.

Benito Mussolini's airforce proved to be no match for the Royal Air Force, who shot down a fair number of Italian biplanes over the English Channel and around Felixstowe itself-one of the few pictures of a shot-down Italian plane over the UK being from here.

The ethos and sometimes the uniform were later copied by others who shared Mussolini's political ideas, including Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, who issued brown shirts to the " Storm Troops " ( Sturmabteilung ) and black uniforms to the " Defense Squad " ( Schutzstaffel, also colloquially known as " Brownshirts ", because they wore black suit-like tunics with brown shirts ), Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom ( whose British Union of Fascists were also known as the " Blackshirts "), William Dudley Pelley in the United States ( Silver Legion of America or " Silver Shirts "), in Mexico the Camisas Doradas or " Golden Shirts ", Plínio Salgado in Brazil ( whose followers wore green shirts ), and Eoin O ' Duffy in the Irish Free State ( Army Comrades Association or " Blueshirts ").

Historian Walter Laqueur found the term ' clerical fascism ' mentioned earlier, even before Mussolini's March on Rome ( October 1922 ), referring to " a group of Catholic believers in Northern Italy who advocated a synthesis of Catholicism and fascism ".

Agostino Lanzillo ( 1886 – 1952 ) was an Italian revolutionary syndicalist leader who later became a member of Benito Mussolini's fascist movement.

The film begins with Tunin ( Giancarlo Giannini ) learning that his friend, an anarchist who was plotting to kill Benito Mussolini, has been killed by Mussolini's fascist police in the countryside.

Facta eventually died in Pinerolo, Italy, with the general population believing him to have been a weak leader who did not stand up for his principles, and, along with King Victor Emanuel III, is largely blamed for Mussolini's seizure of power.

Unable to turn out paintings at a profitable rate, he went into his father's business, working as an assistant to other Italian cinematographers like Massimo Terzano, while also offering assistance to his father who headed the special effects department at Benito Mussolini's film factory, the Istituto LUCE.

A close friend of Chief Segun Olusola, the Nigerian Ambassador in Addis Ababa, who was a fellow poet, Tsegaye was present when the ambassador agreed to throw his diplomatic pressure behind the national demand for the return of the Aksum obelisk, which had been taken on Mussolini's personal orders in 1937.

Word of the arrest reached the officers of the Decima, who considered marching on Mussolini's capital at Salò.

In the first match of the Italian national team, against the Norwegian national team, among the twenty-two thousand spectators there were three thousand escaped anti-fascist Italians who opposed “ Mussolini's national team ”.

For that reason, he and Grandi ( who had fled first to Spain, then to Portugal ) were both sentenced to death in absentia by Mussolini's revived Italian Social Republic in the Verona trial ( held from January 8 to January 10, 1944 ).

Pedro Pablo Ramírez, who had been attached to the Kaiser's army and later Mussolini's in the twenties, became dictator.

The term " Fascism " was first used in 1915 by members of Mussolini's movement, the Fasci of Revolutionary Action.

It was taken from Ethiopia by Benito Mussolini's troops in 1937 as a war chest, and returned on 18 April 2005.

On 13 September 1940, Mussolini's highway was used for the invasion of Egypt by Italian forces stationed in Libya.

Mussolini and the Italian Fascists saw Albania as a historical part of the Roman Empire, and the occupation was intended to fulfill Mussolini's dream of creating an Italian Empire.

Mussolini's motives were in no way altruistic, but he was instead motivated entirely by a wish to escape the self-imposed trap of the Pact of Steel, which had obligated Italy either to go to war at a time when the country was entirely unprepared or to suffer the humiliation of having to declare neutrality, which make him appear cowardly.

The Blue Shirts Society, a fascist paramilitary organization within the Kuomintang modeled after Mussolini's blackshirts, was anti-foreign and anticommunist, and stated that its agenda was to expel foreign ( Japanese and Western ) imperialists from China, crush Communism, and eliminate feudalism.

The Allies, however, agreed ( at Mussolini's insistence ) that the Conference of Ambassadors should be responsible for resolving the dispute because it was the conference that had appointed General Tellini.

Almagia had been at the University of Rome since 1915 but was dismissed after Benito Mussolini's antisemitic legislation of 1938.

Mussolini's foreign minister claimed that Pius XII was " ready to let himself be deported to a concentration camp, rather than do anything against his conscience.

The PPI won over 20 % of the votes in the 1919 and 1921 elections, but was declared illegal by the Fascist dictatorship in 1925 despite the presence of some Popolari in Benito Mussolini's first government.

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa going broke after defense contracts ended, and at the end of 1932 Alfa Romeo was rescued by Benito Mussolini's government, which then had effective control.

The dominion was formed in 1936 during Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's government in Italy with the defeat of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Power over the military was overcentralized to Mussolini's direct control ; he personally undertook to direct the ministry of war, the navy, and the air force.

After Benito Mussolini's fall on July 25, 1943, he was arrested by the Carabinieri as he left the king's private residence in Rome and subsequently imprisoned on Campo Imperatore by Carabinieri forces.

While dictator Benito Mussolini's Italian Social Republic ( Repubblica Sociale Italiana, or RSI ) continued to maintain its alliance with Germany until the end of the war, the RSI was never more than a puppet state.

Much of the city's 20th-century periphery was constructed under Benito Mussolini's fascist government, and during reconstruction efforts after World War II.

The attempted putsch was inspired by Benito Mussolini's successful March on Rome.

By 1928, practically the only check on Mussolini's power was the King's right to dismiss him from office — though that right could only be exercised on the advice of the Fascist Grand Council, a body that could only be convened by Mussolini.

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944 ) was an Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law.

Ciano was skeptical of Mussolini's war plans and knew that Italy's armed forces were ill-prepared for a major war.