The Execution Of Mussolini's Mistress - Clara Petacci
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025
- One of the most brutal men of the Second World War was the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini but he was executed at the end of the conflict. However he was executed alongside his long-standing mistress Clara Petacci. She was a woman who was obsessed with the dictator and Petacci followed him as she tried to flee. But she was executed alongside Mussolini by machine gun, but what happened to her remains after was shocking.
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When things were going ok for the Italians in the war the crowds were cheering him. When things took a turn for the worse they turned on him.
Typical
@@seanohare5488usual stereotype about Italians,we'll get over it
In other words, they had no principles. Moral cowards who opportunistically fell in with whoever would advantage them when it suited them.
@@johnjones6601 as i wrote above:stereotypes
My Dad was there as a child, he said they had no choice & neither did Hitler said he would blow up Italy into oblivion, so that’s first hand 🤷🏼♀️
Weird that such a pretty woman like her was attracted to Mussoulini who looks like Shreck...
I guess his power over the country intoxicated her. That still happens a lot these days.
True
Have you ever heard of Donald Trump and the story of his three wives and his girlfriends? Talk about a Shrek…. Jeez.
It's all about the cold, hard cash.
She wasn’t exactly Marilyn Monroe 😂
Monica gobbled Billy...
Thanks for not using a synthetic digital voice.
You're welcome
Only half of Italy, the King of Italy Victor Emanuel, who was the richest man in the world at the time,didn't want to be with Hitler and Mussolini. So he went to Southern Italy, and took half the Italian army with him. That's why the allied landings in Southern Italy were fairly easy. They joined the allies and fought north with them against the axis powers, don't ever forget that !!
Well, Anzio was no fun. Maybe someone didn't get the word...
Yeah, Hitler. The landings in Italy were fairly easy compared to others in WW2, they would have been way worse had all of Italy been with Germany, instead of just half. Anzio wasn't Normandy, or Iwo Jima, Peleliu, or Okinawa. My initial response was for know it all, DB Cooper, seems he didn't dissappear when he jumped off that plane, too bad, liked the kid better when he did the Houdini. Don't know how my reply ended up where it did, it was in response to a feeble attempt at one person's take on WW2 History in Europe, and should have been placed right under the Kids stupid comment.
I have four original photos of this incident,including two of Mussolini in a makeshift wooden coffin with his face beaten in.They were obtained by my father who was serving in the army in Italy at the time.He became aware of the photos and told me that he "bribed" the photographer with a packet of cigarettes to print him a copy of some of them.
In the early 80s my mum managed a pub in Manchester there was an old guy who drank in there didn’t talk to many people but once he got to know you would open up one time he pulled out a photo he said he’d taken of Mussolini and his girl hanging dead upside down maybe that was the photographer your dad did business with I don’t remember his name but I believed his story
I would think that there's a good chance that the guy in your mum's pub was telling the truth,I cant imagine that there would have been more than one official army photographer at that incident.Shame we'll never know.@@traceynorcross5666
I bet you it is more in line with the time than some of the ones used here, which are from the 1920s
Can you email them to me mate?
@@donzein5213 Sorry,I'm not very computer savvy,I wouldn't know how to email photos.
nearly 45 years later the same thing would happen to Ceausescu in Romania... a fitting end for such monsters
Tutto il mondo comunista è mostruoso , ad oggi !
It was coup, they murdered the couple after criminal kangaroo court. Nothing heroic about.
Ask Romanians.
Ceausescu was much, much worse.
The Italians showed the World what to do with crooked ass politicians when voting takes to long
Shame they couldn’t have used that anger in the war and fought properly instead of flip flopping and running away
❤
@@peterbest5938 The Italians had no appetite for world conquest. They'd gotten that impulse out of their systems centuries before. All the war effort meant to them was hardship.
She thought she had it all. But in a strong catholic society she was scum. The mistress..considered evil! They didn't kill his actual wife. They felt sorry for her.
How do you pit someone?
@@davidchaddock5358 He means pitied (it means they felt sorry for her).
@@zoybean Thanks mate, I thought it may have been another ghastly way to forcibly be removed from this mortal coil. 😃
I am a rabid history buff but never heard of Clafa Patacci until this video well done! So much so, that it compelled me to describe to the channel, click to receive all of the notifications, and give this video a GREAT, BIG, HUMONGOUS “thumbs up”!!! Please keep up the wonderful work.
You've never heard of Clara Pataci, you can't be a history buff!
@@johnhickman2033 He's only 9
Italy was with the Germans in the beginning, don’t ever forget that!
Then they realized they f up with that decision
Definitely true
Actually Hitler modeled himself on Musilini.
@@danielebrparish4271 what does that have to do with my comment kid? Smh…
And Trump and the GOP are with Putin and the Russians. And soon the US will be a Soviet Satellite. A failed nation like all the other Russian states.
Clara was given the opportunity to leave Mussolini and be spared. But she refused to leave his side.
Where in this documentary are you seeing that "Clara was given the opportunity to leave"? In the description of her execution there is no mention of that.
There was no mention to spare her life and it was typical communist justice
@@SaintD382 It's a widely-known fact. The documentary does not cover every detail.
Not well known, not a fact.@@lekmirn.hintern8132
much more fanciable than Eva B
When you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
Quanto sei bravo , canino !!!
In high school in the early sixties, a classmate said her father and uncle were part of the crowd that abused them after they were shot. She said their bodies were badly abused post mortem. She said one report was they were split with a sword or some blade, from groin to neck. True? Who knows? It would not surprise me though.
History as been known to repeat itself.
Should not have censored film.
True
RUclips has rules and will derank videos that are too gratuitous with it
It's not gratuitous, it's HISTORY. Don't whitewash or sanitize history.
Correct
Body desecration is uncivilized even if deserved. We despise fascism for many reasons but first and foremost we're better than them but we must always act better. Words don't matter, a person's actions do.
How can desecration of a body ever be "deserved"?
The EU today is pretty fascistic with all their draconian speech laws and ever encroaching controls over all aspects of our lives.
@@alanaronald244 when that body executed over ten people .
They were fascists after all....., before they werent. You read about the Gardens of the Rhine?
@@alanaronald244 It depends on your standard, for some being a disgusting fascist leaving behind hundreds of piles of dead bodies in your wake deserves the ultimate disrespect even after death. It's not what I'd _ever_ do but sometimes I'd be in the minority that day.
Her father was a physician ,hence they were not poor.She was genuinely in love with the fascist dictator
Same as the devotion of Trump the fascist.
sick help you are obsessed with TRUMP 2024@@bonnielee9570
Last Dictator to be executed like this was in 1989 Romania's Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife.
My 8th grade teacher showed us a picture of the two hanging upside down. I believe he was a buffalo soldier. Never forgot that.
Back in 62 St Paul Mn Drew school.
Correction: They were hanging right-side-up…
your teacher obviously projected the photo incorrectly .
@@cadaverdog1424 No, they were hanging upside-down. It's a famous photo.
your teacher was a buffalo soldier?
@@lekmirn.hintern8132Some women tied her dress to her legs so that when she was hung upside-down her underwear would not be on show.
Projection would have nothing to do with it. The photo in the thumbnail for the video shows them hanging from their feet.
She was all about that thug life from
A very young age.
True she knew of his wars invasions of Ethiopia declaring war on France after Germany did all the dirty work despicable she was no innocent plus well educated daughter of a doctor not ignorant either
I'm not sure whether I missed seeing it, but the photo showing the corpses of Mussolini and his mistress suspended upside down in public is not shown in this video.
Google it
One ponders her fate if they would have executed Benito when he was first imprisoned.
Another example of bad life choices.
True dat! Look how many tin-horn dictators get the power and cause the deaths of millions, the destruction of other countries and -- inevitably -- their own when something as cheap as a rock in a sock could have "fixed" it so the bad things would never have happened. The laws that protect these human scum-balls as they're on their 'rise to power' always seem to prevent the many rational people who know exactly what these bums are going to do, from stopping them BEFORE they ruin a country and it's people. And, once they're in power, those same laws are meaningless to them as they do whatever the hell they want to anyone they want to do it to. They had a chance to whack Adolph, too -- after the "Beer Hall Putsch." And Mao, Pol Pot, etc. The list is endless.
The partisans did not want him to be taken by the Allies.
toxic
Your do an excellent job of presenting your information. Clear, concise and devoid of bias. Look forward to the next one
Must be nice to find someone that loves you that much.
Power makes even the rich hungry!
A dog will love you unconditionally. As for trying to find it from another human being in this messed up world, good luck.
@@ChristIsRisen6777 Totally agree dude
infatuated teenagers are a dime a dozen
Women like that are turned on by men in power and what is in it for their self.
Thank you for this info,love, love,love.thank you
"...who was willing to die next to the man she loved." This is a very romantic framing, but it doesn't seem to square with the actual way Petacci died. She wasn't given an option to go freely rather than die. She wasn't given the opportunity to make some moving speech about preferring death. She was brutally sprayed with machine-gun bullets. How do you interpret that as "she was willing to die next to the man she loved"?
She had many opportunities to make a moral choice or leave for her safety over years.
MY UNCLE WENT THROUGH THIS CITY WITH GEN GEORGE PATTON, & SAW THEM HANGING UP THERE
Certainly not led by Patton - he was busy on the German front at the time, and had nothing to do with Italy.
@@louise_rose Mark Clark
Italy really was a liability to have in a war alliance. Germany had to bail them out so many times in combat.
I can’t believe they even threw vegetables. Carrots hurt!
.Only canned carrots hurt.
They were dead
Depends on where you stick them.
They pissed on them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
How dare they! LOL
No one escapes karma.. not even the people in power
What’s your evidence that karma exists?
My parents’ abhorrence of Mussolini and his mistress was immense. I’ll never forget their telling of this horrible man and that woman.
Thank you for this, it reminded me alot of what I read about the Ceausescu execution. Thanks to you, I learned so much about Carla Patacci, her family, political beliefs, blind love, and tragic downfall of unfair guilt by association.
Very different events leading up to the death of the Ceausescu’s. His wife pulled all the strings and was a nasty piece of work he was just a simply country guy but thick as shit and easily led and manipulated by her and others. That doesn’t excuse his acts because they were joint decisions. Mussolini and his woman was a different dynamic
@@peterbest5938 Very interesting, thanks
@@peterbest5938 To be fair, she was a simple peasant women with no higher education, too. Despite what the propaganda said, all her academic achievments seem to have been fabricated by others. They were both very evil people and probably that was what drew them to each other. Probably a folie à deux situation.
You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Or get strung up by the feet...
I think it’s terrible what thy did to her, but when people turn to mob rule, they can be more vile than the thing they detest.
Considering what Mussolini did to the people, I think he and his cohorts got off easy.
Filipinos did not turn to mob rule in 1986 and let the Marcoses live. You know what happened?
Check who the current president is and who it aligned with just before that.
Yes, look at ANTIFA and BLM. Yet people will bring up the KKK as an argument.
@@Z020852 So why did the Filipinos elect him? Or Duterte before him for that matter? Mob rule for the "wrong" side? It's all a mater of perspective.
@@vladdracul5072 Mob rule elected them, while the rest reject the whole idea of mob rule, ensuring that they can continue to do what they do.
Such a curious question from you given your YT handle. What did your namesake do with the Boyars? Hmmm?
She was unfortunately caught up in the madness of the crowd. Murdered without a trial, she did not deserve that humiliation.
My Dad fought for the US in Italy. He had a post card of mussolini and his mistress hanging.
I would keep that news to myself or throw it away.
I always thought it unjust that she was killed. Couldn't they just have given her a slap, a year in jail and let her go back to obscurity?
That's what I thought, Erina Ceausescu she wasn't!
In the film Mussolini Ultimo Atto she ran in front of Mussolini when he was shot. But nobody knows the truth. Her character was played by Lisa Gastoni. But definitely her body should not have been hanged@@bobhill3941
Not even that in my opinion. What exactly had she done wrong apart from be in love with someone.
No way. She put herself into this mess and went along with it making her as guilty as the rest of them. In other words, equality.
@@Eric-jo8uh guilty of what?? Went along with what? You’re definitely not a legal executive. What would she be tried for at the post war trials? Sleeping with Mussolini? Oh…off with her head! She’s evil.
All dictators and people close to them have ended up like Mussolini and Clara Patecci. History is littered with such endings.
Moral of the story: Don't piss off Italians!!
tell that when mussolini was in power & everything was well & the Germans were around.
Spineless, my wife's father fought in in Nth Africa and Italy not one good word to say about any of them . He said you only had to show up on the battlefield and their hands were in the air instantly. Their tanks had one gear reverse 😂😂
“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. “ - Benito Mussolini to Edwin L. James of the New York Times April 15th 1928
And, here we are...
Mussolini said that? I didn't know that but I've been saying the same thing for a while now.
Well thank God we're not a democracy then. Ya'll do know we're a republic, right?
We vote. That makes us a democracy. 🙄
The Congo is a republic. CHINA is a republic. Many authoritarian countries are republic. They are nothing special, and many are antithetical to all the U.S. holds dear, one of the most important of which is voting... which makes us a democracy.
We vote. That makes us a democracy. 🙄
The Congo is a republic. CHINA is a republic. Many authoritarian countries are republic. They are nothing special, and many are antithetical to all the U.S. holds dear, one of the most important of which is voting... which makes us a democracy.
This is what happens when you give your child everything they want.
Hmm... I think we recently had a President that was just such a spoiled child. I wonder what his legacy will be if his cult gets him elected again?
If Clara knew 13 years later her death .would she have had anything to-do with him.but in the end she had a choice and choose to die with him.love works in mysterious ways.
She wasn't 'executed' dude, as if there was some sort of proper judicial procedure that resulted in a death sentence -- she was savagely murdered
It's known as summary execution - and she chose to stay by Mussolini's side rather than leave him.
@@louise_rose So she was 'summarily executed' for being loyal? -- that was her crime? -- I can understand the crowd taking its anger out on Mussolini, who actually held power, similar to Ceaușescu, who was executed after a kind of show trial, along with his wife, a political figure who also wielded power -- but the killing of Clara Petacci, who as far as I know did not hold any office or have any power, seems more like extrajudicial murder to me, not anything that ought to be called an 'execution'
@@eah8101 The word "execution#" doesn't always imply that there must have been a fair trial. Both Jesus, John Brown and Marie Antoinette were executed, and so were the leaders of the July 20 attempt to assassinate Hitler (in the latter case, there was no trial at all, just a blanket announcement before they were shot: "you have hereby been sentenced to death for treason"). "Execution" sometimes simply means: "swiftly and expeditedly putting somebody to death for political or practical reasons, with the blessing of the ones in power".
@@louise_rose What about the part where I said she was not a political figure and wielded no power did you not understand? -- there was no reason to 'execute' Clara Petacci, hence use of 'execution' to describe her murder is inappropriate -- that ought to be clear enough -- note I did not (and would not) contest use of 'execution' to describe the death of Mussolini, nor would I in the case of the Ceaușescus, both of whom were political figures and held/wielded power (albeit there was a brief show process in their case)
@@eah8101 I think you're marking words a bit here...and it was a borderline revolutionary moment.
Not so much an execution as an assassination/murder.
Justice.
I guess the Italians back then weren't a fan of due process...🤔🤔🤔
Mussolini certainly wasn’t.
Maybe that's where the modern-day Democratic Party gets its unjust ideas.
Dew process?
Dew process?
Are u nuts?
Unbelievably foolish comment
Corrupt as fuck
When Hitler saw this he doubled down on his last minute successful escape to S America.
You are judged by the company you keep.
She must have really had a thing for bad boys but it cost her in the end not a good way to go out but both got what was coming to them.
she was beautiful woman
No, not really.
@@Blueknight1960 skid marked her dress
Ehh..
There's a group of people who are on the same wave length.
What crimes that the mistress committed?
Well in the eyes of the Church, the sin of adultery. How about legally colluding with an enemy or traitor and war crimes. How about crmes against humanity, harboring a criminal. That's just a few...
@@TheAislynnRoseABSOLUTELY
Oh my heart swells for the poor victim of love Petacci. Rubbish. She knew what she was doing, she and her family lavished while simple Italians groveled for their existence. She gladly trashed others lives for her own well being. Guilt by association, yes indeed. She was smart to stand in front of the machine gun rather than face the savage mob.
Yours is a senseless position a travesty of the law.
When dealing with pure evil the levels of civility should should cease.
Mussolini ruined Italy. At the time of his death he was on his way to Switzerland with a boot-full of gold and jewellry taken from Jewish folk who were executed in Rome. The Italian partisans ended Mussolini's dream because they had had enough of the misery he proudly created.
That's funny seeing most of the Italians I have spoken to who were southern and northern villagers loved him.
@erazer5685 Yeah, I know, right? Like my uncles who loved him because Benito gave them a uniform and a pair of boots they've never owned before, but forgave the years they had spent as POWs for him. The human mind can be so fickle...
@@Salvino110 On that, we can both agree.
He always seemed to have bulging crazy eyes
I agree a psycho
He came across to me as a bit of a show pony.
@@YouChwb Another peacock that became feather duster.
Just like Javier Milei....
Maybe he had a thyroid problem
Not very many Italian people wanted to fight when Mussolini declared war in 1940, in fact, a lot of Italians turned against him after that. They changed sides after Mussolini was ousted from power in 1943
Interesting video. I never knew much about her.
My one question, why waste the vegetables!!!!!
It was just broccoli
@@PaulG.x Spaggetti flyiny that Dago Day.''
America brought food to the starving ppl so said ppl had excess to throw away.
It was a terrible, brutal scene. They were both beaten to death and strung up, upside down, while the mob continued to curse them.
Pretty sure the corpses didn't feel a thing!
@@Stevesautopartsify Before death they sure did.
So in public, the faces and bodies were heavily disfigured: how CONVENIENT.
How so?
@@chiefline7084 what type of theory is that?
Smallest book in the World, ‘The Italian book of War Heroes’
Apparently you've never heard of Rome...
Hilarious
Next to the French one.
My brother went into a war surplus shop years ago. He was looking at army jackets & asked the clerk about them. Being informed they were Italian, my brother turned the jacket around so he could view the back & asked where the bullet holes were. The clerk doubled over.
@@webleypug 😂 😂
Some said Clara jumped into the line of fire when the execution of Mussolini took place.
He killed his first wife and son I feel for them they didn’t deserve to die unlike his second wife
My grandfather was there. A South African who escaped prison and joined the partisans.
Why do people figure it out after millions have died. 😮
I don't understand why did the italians kill Mussolini ? I thought they loved Benito Mussolini ( El Duche )
Yes the Italian partisans were citizens who were opposed to the dictatorship and to Hitler. They operated in secret throughout the war.
Downfall of Fascists can be very brutal. Read about the Ceausescus! Horrible! And in 1989... Still understandable. There's only so much The People can take...
when the bodies were strung up her skirt fell down below her head so somebody pulled it back over her knees to protect her modesty - this is evident in the photos that were taken...
It was a priest. He put a belt (possibly his own) around her knees to hold the skirt up. He climbed up the scaffold to do it.
Italians woke up.
Mussolini and Clara were put to rest.
TBH I would have called that more of a murder than an execution.
Correct
I am sure that someone who was an admirer of the murderous, Fascist Mussolini would think that. .
The treatment of the bodies was definitely a kind of lynching, but the people in town that day (and in northern Italy in general) saw no problems with that.
@@louise_rose& that's the problem.
Unfortunately, the fascist ideology didn’t end with the two dictators.
so, where is the execution?
Guess when you push around the people you represent...things happen...sound familiar?
To live without the love of your life is worse than death If I could have died with the love of my life I would have Living without him hasn't been any kind of life to live
And even threw vegetables at the corpses. Harsh.
The square in question was Piazza Loretto. I used to bowl at some lanes right there.
The Italians, unlike us, know how to treat traitors.
Let me see, after the US troops secured the country free of Germans, not before?
Who's us?
How pathetic of your channel not to show the actual photos of them dead. This is history. Tellers of history should never allow such images to be censored. You certainly should not self censor.
He was such a "brave" warrior who did he attack, Ethiopia, people on horse back with ancient weapons against his mechanised army.
Why was the mistress executed, too?
There was no trial so we can't really know. However Italians were devote Catholics and took a dim view of married people having affairs. I think the biggest factor is that she was living the life of a queen when the rest of the country was suffering. Many families lost their homes and theiir children to the ravages of war. Maybe if she had provided safe havens or other aid some would've had sympathy. She could've opened her estate to the homeless or a medical center for veterans instead of living in the lap of luxury while the country was being destroyed.
They probably felt that both Mussolini and Petacci had sold out Italy to Hitler.
It looks very nasty to me, sometimes executioners are more guilty than the “criminals”
As soon as I hear this guy’s voice, I turn these off. Sorry, but it’s too hard to listen to.
I know exactly what you mean! It is quite simply the worst narration voicing on any RUclips documentary channel.
Ok bye then….why you think we need to know is beyond me
My dad was a radar operator during the second world war attached to General Pattens Command unit along with 2 other RAF operators who gave air cover etc. He took a picture of the hanging and I am sure that Mussolini was executed elsewhere and she was found and executed after trying to escape and I am sure that he told me the other guy was a Collaborator?
Must find the picture and post
Mussolini looks like a male Elizabeth Holmes with those big eyes
His signature shows a narcissistic fierce mania, much like Donald Trump's.
@sneadh1 unlike mussolini trump will just rot in a cold dark cell
Mussolini and Petacci.....you fuq around, you find out.
Where's the colorized image on the thumbnail??? 👎
Well, I doubt SHE had any change in her pockets?
The pair paid the price BUT
what happened to the pair after their death was pure evil….
All this rhetoric and very few photos of the two being hung. If you can’t deliver the video in its entirety then I suggest you not say anything at all.🤷🏼
You do realize you can look them up and find them if you want to see the gore. Maybe some don't feel the urge or need to see them.
@@nancyvillines4552 It’s not a matter of ‘Gore’ but an applicable matter of the entirety of truth. Why struggle for months trying to find the info elsewhere when everything can be publicized in its immediacy on the go right here? But I could be wrong🤷🏼
@@Cornbread-gi6kt to each their own. It's not about being right or wrong. It's about individual need's. Personally I've seen them. Have no interest in seeing them again. I don't judge the Italian people for their wanting to see it. They had to live it.
@@nancyvillines4552 True
What happened to Mussolini’s wife?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachele_Mussolini
"no hay mal que dure 100 años ni cuerpo que lo resista...." the same is true for all...
Husband's uncle spoke about seeing them hung..As Americans marched in right after it...He thought they got a guy that he signed up with..He was such a good man my husband's uncle..We spoke about the war several times...The men are a lost breed true heros❤
my dad was there i the New Zealand army.- reason he went insane from 1945- 1991
Barbaric and shame.
Live by the sword,die by the.....
You forgot that the Communist stripped off their clothes,
and disemboweled them, as they hug upside down dead.
You missed the most important fact, her all consuming love Italian sausage. She could eat it morning, noon and night.
At least one photograph is ridiculously anachronic
It's terrible they threw vegetables...
That picture could very well be Trudeau and Freeland in the not so distant future…. About 20 million Canadians would pay any ticket price to see that!
Why bro, why? She ain't done nothing!
Why the term Mistress is used for that woman? She was his extramarital lover, simply and clear.
That’s a definition of a mistress.
And now they're back in power. Human beings will never learn...madness.