Preview
Date
1945-04-29
Creation Date
2008-06-26
Description
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Black & White photograph taken April 29, 1945, of the corpses of Achille Starace, ex-secretary of the Fascist Party, Benito Mussolini (second from left) and Clara (Claretta) Petacci (third from left) hanging from a gas station girder at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy.
Digital Collection
Arnold Clayton Watkins World War II Photograph Collection, 1942-1945
Collection Number
SpC MS 0006
Finding Aid
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/3/
Object Type
Photograph
Image Format
Still Image
Location
Europe--Italy--Laombardy--Milano--Milan;
Publisher Digital
Pittsburg State University, Kansas, Axe Library, Special Collections
Rights
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Original photo of Corpses of Starace, Mussolini, and Petacci
Keywords
World War (1939-1945)--Italy--Milan--Photographs, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)--Death and burial--Photographs, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)--Photographs, Clara Petacci (1912-1945)--Death and burial--Photographs, Clara Petacci (1912-1945)--Photographs, Achille Starace (1889-1945)--Photographs, Milan (Italy)--History--Photographs
Notes
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Pittsburg State University, Special Collections, 6, Watkins, Arnold Clayton, Envelope 11, 10. Contributed by Joan F. Watkins.