ROME : Italy Remembers
On April 25, 1945, the Committee for the National Liberation of North Italy publicly called for a concerted effort by partisans, resistance forces and Allied troops to free Italy from Nazi occupation. That appeal marked the end of Fascism in Italy and came four days before the shooting of Benito Mussolini by Communist partisans, who strung up his body in a gas station in central Milan.
Celebrations marking those events will take place today in major cities including Rome, where a park surrounding the basilica of St. Paul’s will be the site for a program marking the day of resistance.
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