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...came variously, and at various times. For some it ended long ago-at Dunkirk, at Salerno, in Normandy, in the Ardennes, at many an unsung roadside. But for each survivor the war ended on the day when the prisoners' cage was opened or the field ahead no longer spat death...
...dictator lay dead in a square in Milan, his head on the breast of his dead mistress, his body cursed and spat upon...
Death came last week to Benito Mussolini, from the rifles of an Italian firing squad. As his body lay, reviled and spat upon, in a public square of Milan, it was as though the pent-up jury of a nation was beating upon the senseless clay of the man who had led it to vainglory, shame and disaster. From TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham came this eyewitness report of one of history's raw spectacles...
Stunned by shells, bombs and defeat, plain Germans barely glanced up from their ruins. Professional Nazis spat...
...girl spat at a tall Maryland Colonel as we jeeped through the debris-littered streets of this town," reported Will Lang, at the front with the Ninth Army. "Other Germans peeked furtively from behind the crocheted curtains that ornament the workers' windows...