The Restoration of the Truman White House

By Ray Hill

The Second World War was being fought to a finish. Within weeks, Adolf Hitler, isolated and delusional in his fortified bunker buried beneath Berlin, heard of Benito Mussolini’s ill end. The former dictator of Italy, who had reimagined the former glory of the Roman Empire and sought to regain it, fled, along with his mistress, Clara Petacci, hoping to reach Switzerland when they were intercepted and captured by Italian partisans. Clara Petacci insisted on sharing her lover’s fate, and both she and Mussolini were shot. The two ended up with their corpses dangling by their feet from a former filling station along with those of several other high-ranking Italian fascists. Their bodies would be beaten, mutilated, mangled and urinated upon

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