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...members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later the squat man, Benito Mussolini, and his doxy Claretta Petacci were hanging upside down outside a gas station in Milan...
...partisans also found something else: a fortune estimated at nearly $90 million, which Mussolini and his entourage were trying to smuggle into Switzerland. Besides much of the Fascist government's gold bullion and foreign currency, there were Mussolini's personal funds (including three sacks of wedding rings contributed by Italian wives to the Ethiopian campaign), the personal jewelry of Claretta Petacci and the wives of other Fascist bigwigs traveling in the convoy, and satchels of secret correspondence between Mussolini and Hitler...
Ever since the day his old schoolmate, Socialist Benito Mussolini, became a Blackshirt, 69-year-old Lawyer Adone Zoli has been one of Italy's most outspoken antiFascists. Last week, with the Duce long gone and Zoli about to win confirmation as Italy's eighth Premier, the Fascists finally got their revenge...
Zoli can claim the distinction of being one of the first in Italy to be anti-Mussolini. As a boy in the Romagna, short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest...
...charge of the lay organization Serov put a bumptious, indestructible gangster named Boleslaw Piasecki. Piasecki had worked as an agent for Mussolini, later for the Gestapo; when he was picked up by the NKVD, he eagerly ratted on his associates, most of whom were promptly liquidated. But nervous Boleslaw, casting about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar...