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The Lost Partisans
Broder, David
http://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/italy-liberation-mussolini-fascism-pci/Date Written: 2016-04-25 Publisher: Jacobin Mag Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19330 Italy's April 25 holiday marks the anniversary of the country's liberation from fascism. This day in 1945, antifascist partisan units freed the northern industrial centers of Milan and Turin from the grip of Hitler and Mussolini's remaining loyalists, after Allied forces had swept through the country. Just three days later, in a humiliating epitaph to the twenty-year regime, partisans captured and executed il Duce and his entourage, hanging them upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto. Now the resistance is remembered more as representing 'national unity' than working-class resistance to fascism. Subject Headings |