(Originally published by the Daily News on April 30, 1945. This story was written by James E. Roper.) MILAN, April 29 – Italian patriots executed Benito Mussolini yesterday, and today a howling mob is ...

Dozens of Italian fascists gathered Sunday to mark Benito Mussolini’s execution and proudly gave the recently unbanned fascist salute. The notorious gesture, which became associated with the Nazis but ...

To better understand the rise and fall — and rise again — of fascism, TIME spoke to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on first fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and a professor of History and Italian Studies ...

It was a gruesome end for the fascist dictator who had once dominated Italy. The corpses of Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, were hung upside down on meat hooks in Milan’s Piazzale ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – An Army corporal stationed in Italy in the waning days of World War II acquired a suitcase of war booty, sent it home and stowed in his bedroom closet in upstate New York for 65 ...