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The End of Mussolini

The End of Mussolini. April 28, 1945- after Italy was taken by the Allies, Mussolini tried to escape, but was captured and he, his mistress (Clara Petacci) and other Fascists were shot and hung in the Milan town square. (public display).

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The End of Mussolini

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  1. The End of Mussolini • April 28, 1945- after Italy was taken by the Allies, Mussolini tried to escape, but was captured and he, his mistress (Clara Petacci) and other Fascists were shot and hung in the Milan town square. (public display) Cross marking the place in Mezzegra where Mussolini was shot.

  2. Hitler & Eva • Between April 27-April 29, 1945- Hitler married his long-time girlfriend, Eva Braun and wrote a letter stating the Jews were to blame for starting the war and his generals for losing it!

  3. The Last WillAs I did not consider that I could take responsibility, during the years of struggle, of contracting a marriage, I have now decided, before the closing of my earthly career, to take as my wife that girl who, after many years of faithful friendship, entered, of her own free will, the practically besieged town in order to share her destiny with me. At her own desire she goes as my wife with me into death. It will compensate us for what we both lost through my work in the service of my people.What I possess belongs - in so far as it has any value - to the Party. Should this no longer exist, to the State; should the State also be destroyed, no further decision of mine is necessary.My pictures, in the collections which I have bought in the course of years, have never been collected for private purposes, but only for the extension of a gallery in my home town of Linz on Donau.It is my most sincere wish that this bequest may be duly executed.I nominate as my Executor my most faithful Party comrade, Martin Bormann. He is given full legal authority to make all decisions. He is permitted to take out everything that has a sentimental value or is necessary for the maintenance of a modest simple life, for my brothers and sisters, also above all for the mother of my wife and my faithful co-workers who are well known to him, principally my old Secretaries Frau Winter etc. who have for many years aided me by their work.I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.Given in Berlin, 29th April 1945, 4:00 a.m.Signed: A. HitlerSigned as witnesses:Dr. Joseph GoebbelsMartin BormannColonel Nicholaus von Below The Death of Hitler The Last Photo April 30 (Mrs. Newman’s Birthday)- Hitler and Eva took cyanide capsules to end their life. Hitler then shot himself in the head Their bodies were taken outside and burned.

  4. Victory in Europe Day May 7, 1945- Gen. Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich May 8, 1945- Pres. Truman declared V-E Day V-E Day

  5. March 1945- American forces took Iwo Jima April 1945- U.S. troops moved to Okinawa- Japanese started using kamikaze’s (“divine wind”)- suicide pilots as a last ditch effort By June 1945- Japanese resistance ended- Japan now open for invasion End of War- Japan Kiyoshi Ogawa posing before he killed himself in a kamikaze attack on the USS Bunker Hill on May 11, 1945.

  6. Pres. Truman’s advisors told him an invasion of Japan would cost the Allies half a million lives The Manhattan Project was developed They would create the Atomic Bomb The end is near… A selection of U.S. sites important to the Manhattan Project.

  7. Warning leaflets were dropped in Japan (“a reign of death/fire will fall if you do not surrender”) Aug. 6, 1945- Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima Aug. 9- “Fat Man” dropped on Nagasaki The Bombs Little Boy Fat Man

  8. Aug. 15, 1945- V-J (Victory in Japan) Day declared Sep. 2, 1945- Japanese surrendered to Gen. MacArthur on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay Surrender and V-J Day

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