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
The Child who came from an Egg but Dotterine lived happily with the king ever after. The Child who came from an Egg The Child who came from an Egg or The Egg-Born Princess () is an Estonian fairy tale, collected by Dr. Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald in "Eestirahwa Ennemuistesed jutud". William Forsell Kirby included a synopsis of it in "The Hero of Esthonia" as "The Egg-Born Princess." Andrew Lang included it as "The Child who came from an Egg" in "The Violet Fairy Book"; he listed his source as "Ehstnische Märchen", which was the German translation of Kreutzwald's work, by F. Löwe. A queen told an old