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    Piazzale Loreto is a major city square in Milan, Italy. The name Loreto is also used in a wider sense to refer to the district surrounding the square...
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    for Piazzale Loreto’s bloodshed. — Benito Mussolini to the Deputy Head of the Police of the Italian Social Republic, Eugenio Apollonio Piazzale Loreto massacre...
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    and Petacci were taken to Milan and left in a suburban square, the Piazzale Loreto, for a large angry crowd to insult and physically abuse. They were...
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    the following day, the bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down in front of an Esso petrol station. The...
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    by communist partisans and his body was subsequently strung up in Piazzale Loreto. Nicola Bombacci was born near Forlì on 24 October 1879. During his...
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    Monza. The street itself starts at Piazzale Oberdan, in the Porta Venezia neighbourhood, and ends in Piazzale Loreto. Going towards the city centre, the...
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    August 1944, Muti's Squadrists, together with the GNR, perpetrated the Piazzale Loreto massacre in Milan. The victims were fifteen anti-fascist rebels, killed...
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    the other fifteen shot were taken to Milan. His body was exposed in Piazzale Loreto at 03:00 am on 29 April together with those of Mussolini and the others...
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    Milan. At 3:00 a.m., the corpses were dumped on the ground in the old Piazzale Loreto. The piazza had been renamed "Piazza Quindici Martiri" (Fifteen Martyrs'...
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    mistress, and other leaders of his Fascist government by hanging in Piazzale Loreto, Milan. Since the end of World War II, Italy experienced an economic...
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    and captured by anti-Fascist Italian partisans. Starace was taken to Piazzale Loreto and shown the body of Mussolini, which he saluted just before he was...
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    former Party Secretary Achille Starace, Nicola Bombacci and others in Piazzale Loreto, Milan. Steve Cole (5 August 2009). "The Execution of Mussolini". Wikiquote...
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    the death of Petacci, and the public exhibition of the corpses in Piazzale Loreto. His personal account of the events was published in the party newspaper...
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    and several regime officers, that were later hanged and exposed in Piazzale Loreto, where one year before some resistance members had been executed. During...
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    and Petacci were later brought to Milan and hung upside down in the Piazzale Loreto square. Eighteen executed prominent Fascists (including Mussolini,...
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    "Piazza Cordusio" (see [1]). An example of a formally defined "Piazzale" is Piazzale Loreto (which is in fact much larger than Cordusio). 45°27′56.11″N 9°11′9...
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    executed there. The bodies were then taken to Milan and hung up on the Piazzale Loreto of the city. On 29 April, Rodolfo Graziani surrendered all Fascist...
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  • and the smaller package a second time in a public square, (Piazzale Loreto or Piazzale Corvetto). As evidence of his good relationship with Tortora...
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    and opponents of the regime were shot at Piazzale Loreto in what history would remember as the Piazzale Loreto Massacre. Six of these fifteen antifascists...
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    Italian partisans on 28 April 1945. Their bodies were displayed in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, abused by the crowd, then left hanging upside down. "Thus...
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    section between Cascina Gobba and Caiazzo. The station is located at Piazzale Loreto within the municipal area of Milan. It is a very busy station. This...
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    in the northeast area. This area of Milan, located on the north of Piazzale Loreto, has historically been following the demographic development of the...
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  • The bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were then brought to the Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down on public display at a gas station. The...
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    public display, hanging by their feet, at a gasoline station in the Piazzale Loreto in Milan. In the meantime, in the face of the rapid Allied advance...
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    Mussolini, his mistress and two aides, displayed hanging upside down in Piazzale Loreto of Milan on 28 April 1945. Partigiano!/ Ti ho visto appeso/ Immobile...
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    councillor and wrote an autobiography, With Mussolini Before and After Piazzale Loreto. Leccisi died at age 88 on 2 November 2008 at a retirement home in...
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  • music magazine published from 1966. The magazine's headquarters was in Piazzale Loreto in Milan. It was run by Germano Ruscitto, formerly the press officer...
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    sentenced in absentia in 1999, but never extradited, for ordering the Piazzale Loreto massacre—the public execution on 10 August 1944 of 15 Italian partisans...
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  • hung by their heels at a gas station in the public square of Milan, Piazzale Loreto, following their execution by Italian partisans after an attempt to...
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    soldiers formed the firing squad that shot fifteen captured partisans in Piazzale Loreto in reprisal for the partisan bombing of a German truck, in which six...
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