Italian Resistance organization
also: Italian partisans, resistance fighters
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Claims (2)
Italian Resistance assassinated
Benito Mussolini documented
“He and his mistress, Claretta Pataki, who insisted on sharing his fate, were machine gunned down and their bodies were put on display in Milan. Mussolini's body was subjected to particular abuse by the large, frantic crowd. One woman fired …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 24:35
Italian Resistance assassinated
Claretta Petacci documented
“He and his mistress, Claretta Pataki, who insisted on sharing his fate, were machine gunned down and their bodies were put on display in Milan. Mussolini's body was subjected to particular abuse by the large, frantic crowd. One woman fired …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 24:35
Mentions (10)
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To begin at the particularly dire moment for Wolfe, on April 26, 1945, less than two weeks before the end of the war, that morning, soon after arriving at the SS command post in a quaint town nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps on …
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The partisans had established positions around the entire SS compound, a luxurious state that had been seized by the Nazis from the Locatelli family, which was a wealthy dynasty of cheese manufacturers. Wolfe had no way to break through the…
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who blamed him for the reprisal killings of many civilians in response to partisan attacks on Nazi targets, as well as for the torture and murder of numerous resistant fighters. He fell into the partisans' hands. The SS commander was not li…
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To my great, and I openly admit joyful, surprise, I was ordered to the innermost Hitler headquarters. Hitler wanted me to have me nearby because he knew that he could rely on me completely. He had known me for a long time and rather well. T…
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whose status had been reduced to that of Wolf's ward, was captured by partisans at a roadblock on the northern tip of Lake Como while fleeing with his dwindling entourage for Switzerland. Taken to a crumbling but still grand city hall nearb…
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There was a great danger they might storm the villa and kill Wolf. The SS general was the key to Dulles' greatest wartime ambition, securing a separate peace with Nazi forces in Italy before the Soviet army could push into Austria and forwa…
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and tried to cut his own deal. In his backroom dealings with Dulles, Wolfe at times found himself an emissary of the Nazi high command and at other times a traitorous agent working at cross purposes. Wolfe, now surrounded by Italian resista…
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But the extremely generous standards of Dulles and Gabernich, even Karl Wolf, qualified as a redeemable Nazi. After being dispatched, he was accompanied by a Swiss secret agent, Weibel, jumped on an Italian-bound train arriving at the Swiss…
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a man well known to the Italian resistance fighters in the border area by his nickname, Scotty. Gavernich thought that Scotty, a man who risked his life each day fighting SS soldiers, would balk at the idea of saving the general who command…
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Agent Scotti and three Swiss intelligence operatives. The second was filled with the Italian partisans and a third conveyed to SS officials Dulles had recruited to ease the convoy's passage through German-controlled areas. It was one of the…