3 real historical locations · Italy
An Italian miniseries depicting the final years of Mussolini's dictatorship, focusing on his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano, who voted for Mussolini's removal in 1943 and was subsequently executed on the Duce's personal orders.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Italy.
The 1985 Italian-German co-production depicts the fall of Mussolini in July 1943 — his arrest, imprisonment and the political chaos of the armistice period t...
On 25 July 1943, the Fascist Grand Council voted to strip Mussolini of command. King Victor Emmanuel III had him arrested immediately after their meeting. He was held at various locations before being rescued by Germa...
View location →After his rescue by German commandos, Mussolini establishes the Italian Social Republic at Salò on Lake Garda — a German puppet state in the north, ruled by ...
The Italian Social Republic (RSI) operated September 1943 – April 1945. Mussolini was essentially a German prisoner ruling a rump state. His son-in-law Ciano, who had voted to depose him, was executed on his orders.
View location →Mussolini is found hiding in a German military convoy near Dongo and captured by Communist partisans on 27 April 1945. He is executed the following day at Gi...
Mussolini's execution and the display of his body in Milan's Piazzale Loreto — the same square where partisans had been publicly executed — symbolised the end of fascism in Italy.
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