The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s ...

Benito Mussolini wearing military uniform with braid on shoulders, medals, and chain with medallion on chest, fur hat. Il Duce, as Mussolini was known, was Adolf Hitler’s inspiration.

On April 28, 1945, the dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by members of the Italian resistance, along with his mistress Clara Petacci. The next day, their bodies were dumped in a Milan square ...

Mussolini began to use state powers to surveil all non-fascist political parties. In the 1924 general election, with fascist militia menacingly manning the polls, Il Duce won 65% of the vote.

Overcoming German reluctance, Mussolini insisted on sending some 200,000 Italian troops to participate in the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union—because he wanted credit for the defeat of Bolshevism.

Parece que no soy la única que tiene secreto. [Hablan en inglés] ♪ ♪ Narrador: Junio de 1940. El líder italiano Benito Mussolini está a punto de entrar en la guerra a favor de los alemanes.

Already, by January 1942, Mussolini was complaining about the behaviour of German troops in Italy; labourers were already being sent to Germany to the point of creating a labour shortage in Italy.

British Pathé's video caption noted the event was clearly staged: "MV Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) feeding wheat into the threshing machine. He is helping with the harvest.

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini made grandiose plans to conquer much of the world. The war moved toward the Mediterranean, which Don RamÓn’s country bounds on the west (see p. 34).

Both Mussolini and Hitler transferred parliament’s representation of the people, and therefore the power to make laws, to the executive. Il Duce and the Führer became the legal embodiments of ...