Benito Mussolini Mussolini was rescued from captivity in the Gran Sasso raid by German paratroopers and "Waffen-SS" commandos led by Major Otto-Harald Mors. Adolf Hitler, after meeting with the rescued former dictator, then put Mussolini in charge of a puppet regime in northern Italy, the Italian Social Republic (, RSI), informally known as the "Salò Republic". In late April 1945, in the wake of near total defeat, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci attempted to flee to Switzerland, but both were captured by Italian communist partisans and summarily executed by firing squad on 28 April 1945 near Lake Como. His body was
I Lived I Lived "I Lived" is a song recorded by American pop rock band OneRepublic. It was released as the sixth single from the album, "Native" (2014). It was originally planned to be released as the fifth single in January 2014, but was shelved in favor of "Love Runs Out". It was the final song covered in the series finale of the hit FOX musical comedy-drama "Glee" in March 2015. OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder noted that he wrote the song for his four-year-old son. In an interview with "People" magazine, he said, "The whole idea, to quote the late great Robin