Mussolini Executed, 1945/04/30
Universal Newsreel transcript
Ed Herlihy Universal narrator:
Bombastic
Mussolini the sawdust Caesar, comes to his end in the gutter. Fitting
climax to a life of treachery and double-cross, he led his country to
ruin when he threw his lot in with Hitler. Oh yes, they saw some
palmy days when Il Duce confidently stabbed France in the back. He
had dreams of empire before the bayonets of the Allies deflated this
false prophet.
He was captured once before and rescued by German paratroops. This time he had no such chance, partisans tried him along with his sweetheart and several henchmen. Just as these pictures show the trial previously of other key fascists and collaborators; he was brought before a firing squad, and in this manner he died as tyrants should. And was hung by his heels, a fitting and glorious end.
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