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
The Mistress of the World Murphy and Maud's son, who is supposed to have died shortly after his birth. In the end, mother and son fall into each other's arms. Austrian film producer Joe May conceived the idea for filming "The Mistress of the World", which he loosely based on the novel "Die Herrin der Welt" by author Karl Figdor, in early 1919. May produced "The Mistress of the World" as a serial film, which Carjels argues was more influenced by the French serials of the time rather than the American 'cliff-hanger' serials. Whereas the popular American serials were filmed over two reels, making them