Claretta petacci biography of william

  • Clara Petacci was Benito Mussolini's lover for twelve years, from 1933 until their deaths on April 28, 1945.
  • On 10 October Mussolini wrote Claretta a review of his love life.
  • Intrigue still surrounds the execution of Mussolini and his mistress Claretta Petacci by communist partisans in 1945.

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    The hanging of Benito Mussolini, his mistress Claretta Petacci, and four others, Rome, 1945 April 29

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     Item — Box: 27, Folder: 065

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    The 8th Evacuation Hospital collection includes photographs, personal and official correspondence, reports, notebooks, purchase orders, citations, certificates, scrapbooks, newsclippings, insignia, and a manuscript of Byrd Stuart Leavell's book: The 8th Evac.: a History of the University of Virginia Hospital Unit in World War II (1970). Additional artifacts, including uniforms, plaques, and a replica set of Roman instruments, are in the artifact collection at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections, University of Virginia. A web exhibit on the 8th Evacuation Hospital, featuring content and images from the collection is available here: http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/8thevacuation/

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    Hitler? He's just a big softie: The diaries of Mussolini's lover that show what Italian dictator REALLY thought

    By NICK PISA FOR MAILONLINE
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    Diaries written by the mistress of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini have revealed how he thought  Adolf Hitler 'an old sentimentalist at heart'.

    The previously unpublished diaries of Claretta Petacci also note Mussolini's fervent anti-Semitism, his disgust at mixed-race marriages between Italians and locals in  African colonies, and his anger at the pre-war Pope, Pius XI.

    Her father was the Pope's personal doctor. She  was just 20 in 1932 when she met Mussolini,  who was then 49. 

    Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's lover kept diaries that revealed what the Italian dictator really thought. She died alongside him in 1945

    Mussolini and Hitler during a visit in Germany in 1941

    She  was his lover for nine years before at the end of the war she, like him was shot and hanged upside down from a garage forecourt by partisans.

    Now her

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    693: Clara Petacci

    Mussolini’s Mistress

    Born: 28 February 1912, Rome, Italy

    Died: 28 April 1945, Giulino de Mezzegra, Azzano, Italy

    Also Known As: Claretta Petacci

    Clara is most known for what happened to her after her death. After she and Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, were murdered, their bodies were strung up in a public place for the Italian people to spit on and disrespect as they saw fit.

    According to reports, Clara was not supposed to be killed, but she died because she tried to protect Benito. She held onto him and begged the Communist partisans not to kill Benito. But her cries were in vain; they were both shot. At the time, Benito was sixty-one and Clara was thirty-three.

    After Hitler heard of how Clara, Benito, and other fascist leaders had been killed and their bodies put on public display, he vowed not to let that happen to himself. Only five days later, Hitler would kill his wife, Eva Braun, and then himself, before their bodies were burned in a

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