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The following day, Mussolini and Petacci were executed, shot together as they stood against a wall. Their bodies were later taken to Piazza Loreto in Milan, where they were cruelly displayed following the violence witnessed earlier in the war, where local partisans had suffered executions.
Public Display and Aftermath
The gruesome end of Mussolini and Petacci attracted a massive crowd, who treated their lifeless forms with outrage. As they were publicly hanged, the crowd reacted vehemently, spitting, urinating, and even physically assaulting their remains. The brutal display of their corpses was a poignant representation of the Italian people’s outrage against the fascist regime they had endured.