![This Week in History: 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide and Benito Mussolini is executed | Vancouver Sun This Week in History: 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide and Benito Mussolini is executed | Vancouver Sun](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/vancouversun/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sun0409mussolini.jpg?w=288&quality=90&strip=all&sig=x07UMngL5u2FB90SQbru8A)
This Week in History: 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide and Benito Mussolini is executed | Vancouver Sun
![Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci hanging upside down in a gas station in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, Italy April 28 1945 Stock Photo - Alamy Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci hanging upside down in a gas station in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, Italy April 28 1945 Stock Photo - Alamy](https://www.alamy.com/aggregator-api/download?url=https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2A4A3HG/benito-mussolini-and-claretta-petacci-hanging-upside-down-in-a-gas-station-in-piazzale-loreto-milan-italy-april-28-1945-2A4A3HG.jpg)
Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci hanging upside down in a gas station in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, Italy April 28 1945 Stock Photo - Alamy
Milan, Italy. 1945-05. Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy hanging in the streets of ... | Australian War Memorial
![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://c8.alamy.com/comp/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
![Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci hanging after execution in Milan, Italy on 29 April 1945 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci hanging after execution in Milan, Italy on 29 April 1945 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories](https://49fe30bb3aa7406c16dc-5c968119d095dc32d807923c59347cc2.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/2007.243.188_1.jpg)
Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci hanging after execution in Milan, Italy on 29 April 1945 | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories
![kakasloi on X: "A bunch of Italian antifascists hanging the fascist dictator Mussolini upside down. https://t.co/rj7yUageZZ" / X kakasloi on X: "A bunch of Italian antifascists hanging the fascist dictator Mussolini upside down. https://t.co/rj7yUageZZ" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZXwLdmWsAYDMJm.png)
kakasloi on X: "A bunch of Italian antifascists hanging the fascist dictator Mussolini upside down. https://t.co/rj7yUageZZ" / X
![Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci hanging upside down in a gas station in Piazzale Loreto, Milan Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci hanging upside down in a gas station in Piazzale Loreto, Milan](https://cdn.imago-images.com/bild/st/0194979844/m.jpg)
Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci hanging upside down in a gas station in Piazzale Loreto, Milan
![Hanging Out at the Gas Station. Mussolini and his pals exit stage left | by Kathy Copeland Padden | Short History Hanging Out at the Gas Station. Mussolini and his pals exit stage left | by Kathy Copeland Padden | Short History](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1144/1*AESahUtiLO9SN_zLpZ3RrQ.jpeg)