Mussolini was stopped by anti-fascist partisans in Dongo, on the shores of Lake Como, on April 27, 1945, as he tried to escape with his lover, Clara Petacci, following the Allied liberation of Italy.
Mussolini was headed north with his mistress, Clara Petacci, presumably to seek asylum in Switzerland. But he never got there. Instead, the 1939 Alfa Romeo 6c Sport Berlinetta they were in - which ...