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Hitler's secret mission to free Benito Mussolini | Otto Skorzeny's Gran Sasso raid (WW2)

In early 1943, the Second World War was in full swing, the fortunes of the Axis Powers seemed to have turned. On July 25th that year, two weeks after the Allied powers invaded Sicily, the King of ...
Washington Post

World War II’s less-famous fascist

Benito Mussolini took power in Italy in late 1922, making him Europe’s first fascist leader. Adolf Hitler, at the time a little-known beer hall agitator for his fledgling Nazi Party in Munich, would ...
Forbes

Now You Can Visit Mussolini’s Secret Underground World War II Bunker In Rome

The secret bunkers built between 1942 and 1943, where Benito Mussolini and his family sought refuge from Allied bombing in the private residence of Villa Torlonia The dramatic underground bomb ...
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno

Mussolini bunkers offer glimpse of WW2 history

(ANSA) - Rome, November 5 - Three underground bunkers built for Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini have opened to the public for the first time in six years, offering a glimpse of World War Two ...
Time

Read an Eye-Witness Account of Mussolini's Final Moments

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