Italian Social Republic collapsed. In Italy, this day is known as Liberation Day ("festa della liberazione"). On this day a general partisan uprising, alongside the efforts of Allied forces during their final offensive in Italy, managed to oust the Germans from Italy almost entirely. At the point of its demise, the Italian Social Republic had existed for slightly more than nineteen months. On 27 April, partisans caught Mussolini, his mistress (Clara Petacci), several RSI ministers and several other Italian Fascists while they were attempting to flee. On 28 April, the partisans shot Mussolini and most of the other captives. The RSI Minister of
Magda Fontanges for life, as well as being exiled her from Paris and any other "large French town" for 20 years. Fontanges was quoted as saying upon the conclusion of the trial: My only regret is that I wasn't hanged with the Duce instead of his last mistress, Clara Petacci. Fontanges was then imprisoned in the women's prison in Mauzac from 1948 to 1952. Due to health reasons, in 1952 she is released to house arrest in Melun, however Fontanges moved to Paris with the intention of managing a bar, and was arrested again for not respecting the terms of her parole.