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Thursday, 28 April 2022

Universal News and the Execution of Mussolini

Mussolini Executed, 1945/04/30

 

 

Universal Newsreel transcript


Ed Herlihy Universal narrator:


Bombastic Mussolini the sawdust Caesar, comes to his end in the gutter. Fitting climax to a life of treachery and double-cross, he led his country to ruin when he threw his lot in with Hitler. Oh yes, they saw some palmy days when Il Duce confidently stabbed France in the back. He had dreams of empire before the bayonets of the Allies deflated this false prophet. 

He was captured once before and rescued by German paratroops. This time he had no such chance, partisans tried him along with his sweetheart and several henchmen. Just as these pictures show the trial previously of other key fascists and collaborators; he was brought before a firing squad, and in this manner he died as tyrants should. And was hung by his heels, a fitting and glorious end.

 




 

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