History.com has this for 28 April:
On 28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini, known as Il Duce, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.Rico says there's no one left to lament his passing, the dumb fuck...
The deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy during the German occupation, toward the end of the war. As the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula, with defeat of the Axis powers all but certain, Mussolini considered his options. Not wanting to fall into the hands of either the British or the Americans, and knowing that the Communist partisans, who had been fighting the remnants of roving Italian Fascist soldiers and thugs in the north, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country.
He and his mistress made it to the Swiss border, only to discover that the guards had crossed over to the partisan side. Knowing they would not let him pass, he disguised himself in a Luftwaffe coat and helmet, hoping to slip into Austria with some German soldiers. His subterfuge proving incompetent, he and Petacci were discovered by partisans and shot, their bodies then transported by truck to Milan, Italy, where they were hung upside down and displayed publicly for revilement by the masses.
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