Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini delivers a speech in Rome, Italy. Crowds gathered from the Via dei Fori Imperiali to Piazza Venezia as Mussolini arrives in a car. Mussolini extends his arm in a “Roman Salute” from his car along the Via dei Fori Imperiali. Benito Mussolini, wearing a crisp white suit, addresses a gathering of 60,000 women from his balcony at the Palazzo Venezia. Crowds outside the Colosseum cheer for Mussolini. Women dressed in Italian Lazio traditional folk attire wave and cheer to support Mussolini. Italians cheer for Mussolini as they crowd Piazza Venezia and Via del Corso.
Former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini’s body is put on display in Milan after his execution in Northern Italy (WWII). Many people gathered in a street in Milan. Dead bodies of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, and other fascists such as Alessandro Pavolini, Achille Starace and Nicola Bombacci at Piazzale Loreto, near Milano Centrale railway station. People gathered around the bodies as policemen try to control them. Cameramen record the event. Dead bodies of Mussolini, Clara Petacci hanged upside down from a metal girder framework of an Esso gas station.
Italian T3 Scorpion mine detonator in Sicily, Italy during World War II. The T3 Scorpion mine detonator moves towards a barbed wire fence as smoke rises. Explosions occur and billows of smoke rise up as mines are being detonated on a field. The smoke rises as the mines are detonated.
Italian naval maneuvers in Civitavecchia, Italy during World War II. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Soldiers on the terrace of a building to watch the naval maneuvers. Two aircraft in flight as smoke puffs rise from the coast below. The smoke rises as chemical shells burst in a valley during the maneuvers as Mussolini and Hitler review. Billows of smoke rise up as explosions occur at sea. A boat in the foreground. Two passenger ships being bombarded and pillars of smoke rise up.
May Day celebrations in Rome, Italy during World War II. A large crowd gathered at the Piazza Del Popolo. A podium with dignitaries on it. People carry flags and banners. People clap as they listen to the speakers. A man addresses the crowd from the podium. Banners bearing signs in Italian. A girl in the crowd faints and is being attended to. An Egyptian obelsik at the center of the Piazza. A statue in the foreground as people walk past it. People walk down a street as they carry flags.
The end of Italian Fascism in Milan during World War II. People in a car as they move on a street with people on either side. A sign reads ' Regina' outside the Hotel Regina (Via Santa Margherita, 6 20121 Milano MI Italy). People look out from windows in a building. A car pulls up in the street. Women smile as they look down in the street from a balcony. Soldiers of 13th Tank Battalion of United States 1st Armored Division loaded on tanks as they move past the cheering civilians. Cars outside a building. German troops exit the Hotel Regina, used as the SS (Schutzstaffel) headquarters in Milan. German SS troops being questioned outside Hotel Regina. German prisoners seated in a car. Cars on tram tracks. A car being driven on the tracks.
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