Opening The Coffin Of Mussolini’s Executed Mistress

One of the most significant executions of the Second World War took place on the 29th April 1945 outside the walls of a villa near to Lake Como in Italy. Benito Mussolini the former Italian Fascist Dictator was stood with his mistress after they had been told to get out of a vehicle by a man who would become their executioner. The pair were told to stand by a wall, and then they were littered by machine gun bullets, however this was not the end of their story. The pair were then taken to Milan where their remains were spat at and kicked by an angry mob, before Mussolini and his Mistress were strung up upside down from a service station inside of the Italian city. Thousands witnessed the sight and spectacle, and it had a huge effect on Hitler and his future wife Eva Braun, as decisions were taken to ensure their remains were not likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. But Clara Petacci was also subjected the the brutality of the crowd, but Clara’s body was exhumed from a grave where she had been interred under a false name, and there had been whispers as to the fact her body had been stolen and that items placed inside of her coffin and tomb had also been robbed. But what is the story behind this?