On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
Then, how was Mussolini overthrown?
On July 25, 1943, Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who tells Il Duce that the war is lost.
Subsequently, what happened to Mussolini’s daughter? She died in Rome in 1995.
Hereof, why did Mussolini lose power?
By 1943, after years of fighting in World War II, Italy was viewed by its own citizens as losing the war. On July 25, 1943, Mussolini was voted out of power by his own Grand Council, arrested after a visit with the king and sent to the island of La Maddalena.