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
Clara Rackham Clara Rackham Clara Dorothea Rackham (3 December 1875 – March 11, 1966) was an English politician active in the women's suffrage, co-operative, peace, adult education, and labour movements. She was a social reformer, magistrate, Poor Law Guardian, factory Inspector, educator, and penal reformer, who represented the people of Cambridge and the surrounding areas as a long-serving city and county councillor and was the vice-chairman of Cambridge County Council from 1956-1958 and chairman of the Cambridge County Council Education Committee from 1945 to 1957 Clara Rackham (known as Dorothea to her family) was born in Notting Hill, the daughter of Henry