Donna ("Lady") Rachele Mussolini (born Rachele Guidi) (11 April1890 - 30 October1979) was the wife of Benito Mussolini. She came from a peasant family and moved in with Benito Mussolini in 1910. They married in 1915 in a civil ceremony and renewed their vows in a religious service in 1925 (after Benito's rise to power). She bore five children by her husband, and was willing to ignore his various mistresses. She was portrayed as the model Fascist housewife and mother. She remained loyal to Mussolini until the end, and was arrested in 1945 by Italian Partisans in Switzerland (she fled Italy after World War II) and was turned over to the Americans as a harmless matron and was released after several months. In her later life she ran a restaurant and received a Government pension until her death. April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the Prime-Minister and fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ...
Mussolini was called Duce [leader] by his followers; his official title was "head of the government," and he held, besides the premiership, as many portfolios as he saw fit.
In 1936, Hitler and Mussolini aided Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War; the Rome-Berlin Axis was strengthened by a formal alliance (1939), which Mussolini's son-in-law and foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, helped to create.
Mussolini's body was later removed, and in 1957 it was placed in his family's vault.
Mussolini was born in a village named Predappio in the province of Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna.
Mussolini."Mussolini and his generals sought to cloak the operations of chemical warfare in the utmost secrecy, but the crimes of the fascist army were revealed to the world through the denunciations of the International Red Cross and of many foreign observers.
Mussolini was survived by his wife, Donna RacheleMussolini, by two sons, Vittorio and Romano Mussolini, and his daughters Edda, the widow of Count Ciano and Anna Maria.
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