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[edit] October 11, 2006
Benito Mussolini was killed on April 28, 1945 in Milan along with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic. They were caught by the Italian resistance movement on April 27th at Dongo while heading for Chiavenna to board a plane to escape to Switzerland. They were executed the next day at Giulino di Mezzegra. After their execution their bodies were displayed on the 29th of April in front of a gas station in Milan on the same spot where some anti-fascists had been executed by the government. Their bodies were hung from meat hooks to show to the population that Mussolini was dead and to dishearten any remaining fascists. Mussolini's corpse is the second from the right followed by Petacci's next to him on the right.
[edit] July 5, 2006
The Battle of Cable Street was a street battle which took place on Sunday October 4, 1936 between, on the one hand, members of the British Union of Fascists and the police, and, on the other, anti-fascist counter-demonstrators in the East End of London.
After the fascists were permitted to march in an area with a large Jewish population the local people and members of anti-fascist groups erected barricades in order to prevent the march. An attempt by the police to remove the barricades led to a series of running battles which led to the march being called off.
This was claimed by the organisers of the blockade as a victory for anti-fascism, and a major factor in the subsequent decline of the B.U.F.
[edit] May 20, 2006
This picture shows a group of Ustaše soldiers holding down a Serb civilian before beheading him with a saw.
The Ustaše (often spelled Ustashe in English was a Croatian organization put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers in 1941. The Ustaše pursued Nazi policy by trying to exterminate all Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, non-Catholics, and political dissidents.
[edit] March 17, 2006
One of the most well-known fascists, Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death in 1945. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.
