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

Il Duce, as Mussolini was known, was Adolf Hitler’s inspiration. Given the scale of Hitler’s atrocities, our image of fascism today has largely been shaped by Nazism.

Yet eighty years after the fall of the "Duce", the legacy of fascism is no longer deplored in Italy, and even gives rise to nostalgia. Issued on: 27/04/2025 - 09:47 6 min Reading time ...

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.

This conviction of knowing better than the experts was a characteristic of Mussolini’s rule, as well: At different moments, along with being prime minister, Il Duce assumed the Cabinet positions ...

Un día después del discurso del Duce, dos navíos italianos, el Gaeta y el Fulgor, se refugian en el puerto de Huelva. ♪ ... Mussolini nos ha declarado la guerra. ♪ Gracias por traerme ...

On the 10th of June 1940, a day after my 10th birthday, Mussolini made his ill fated decision to enter the war. The police went into action that very night all over Britain.

A viral photograph claims to show the early 20th-century fascist Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, harvesting wheat in the fields. The photograph, shared on X and Reddit among other social media ...

Many things happened during the 19 days that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's big-shot brother-in-law, RamÓn Serrano Suner, spent in Berlin and Rome. Japan joined the Axis. Adolf Hitler ...

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 ...