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Benito Mussolini: Switzerland
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Following his rescue, Mussolini headed the Italian Social Republic in parts of Italy that were not occupied by Allied forces until the end of the war. In late April 1945 with total defeat looming, Mussolini attempted to escape to Switzerland, only to be captured and summarily executed near Lake Como by Communist Italian partisans. His body was taken to Milan where it was hung upside down at a petrol station for public viewing and confirmation of his demise.
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Mussolini was a smart young man who received good grades in school but was expelled periodically for misbehaving. When Mussolini was about nineteen years old he emigrated to Switzerland to evade conscription. In 1909, Mussolini found himself living in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, although it was actually ethnically an Italian state.
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In June 1902, Mussolini went to Switzerland. He took with him no obvious skills and he was forced to live rough. He got involved with some Italian socialists who worked in Switzerland, got employment as a bricklayer and joined a trade union. He got expelled from Switzerland in 1903 when he suggested a general strike – a very revolutionary idea then.
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With Allied troops approaching, Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, attempted to escape to Switzerland. They were captured at Lake Como by Italian partisans on 27th April, 1945. The following day they were shot and their bodies displayed in public in Milan.
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After Italy’s many military defeats, King Victor Emmanuel dismissed Mussolini on July 25, 1943, and in September obtained an armistice with the Allies, who had invaded southern Italy. At the same time, the Germans rescued the sickly Mussolini and made him organize a brutal puppet Social Republic in northern Italy. In the final days of the war Mussolini attempted an escape to Switzerland with his mistress Clara Petacci (b. 1912). Italian partisans captured and shot them on April 28, 1945, at Giulino di Mezzegra near Lake Como. In view of their country’s wartime disasters, few Italians regretted the overthrow of the Fascist regime and the death of its demagogic Duce.C.F.D., CHARLES F. DELZELL, M.A., Ph.D.
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As a youth, Mussolini was known for his quick temper and arrogance. Educated in local schools, he earned a diploma in 1901 that qualified him to teach elementary school. Employment prospects in the area were scarce... and in 1902 he moved to Switzerland.
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