This week in History with Izi Mann: Episode 23

In this episode Izi takes us back almost 80 years ago to a dramatic week when two of the world’s looming dictators died just two days apart. The first of the two to go was Benito ‘Il Duce’ Mussolini, who on April 28th, 1945, attempted to escape Italy with his mistress to Switzerland. They were summarily caught and shot by partisans. The second notorious dictator to die was Adolf Hitler on April 30th, 1945. Their deaths came in the final days of World War II in Europe, as Allied Forces closed in on both Germany and northern Italy. The proximity of their deaths symbolically marked the collapse of the Fascist and Nazi regimes.