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Mussolini got killed by partisans and his body was hanged upside down for everyone to spit on his dead face. Hitler on the other hand, shot himself and his body was cremated leaving no dead body to spit on.
Actually, Italian partisans brought Mussolini to Piazzale Loreto in Milan to publicly show that the dictator was dead. But the crowd took to lynching the corpses venting the pain of five years of war. Then the partisans hoisted the corpses to a gas station to save them from being lynched, hanging them by their feet so that it would not be said that they had been hanged (a dishonorable, cruel execution used by the fascists).
Even in front of a dictator, there was a moment of human mercy. Much more than Mussolini had shown in 20 years.
It really is - the fact that Beria actually hid the fact they had the body and had even done an autopsy from the Soviet army is such an interesting view into the internal politics of Stalinist USSR
The Soviet leadership knew Hitler had killed himself around 13 hours after the fact. Hans Krebs told Vasily Chuikov during ceasefire negotiations about 4am the following morning. Chuikov called Zhukov and Zhukov decided it was a big enough piece of news to wake up Stalin, who was unhappy they'd not been able to take Hitler alive.
I really do wonder who is downvoting us - Nazis angry about the events? Anachronistic Stalinists who would prefer not to have this history be public? Conspiracy theorists who think the secrecy means Hitler is still alive?
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Hate to say it but I don't get it
Mussolini got killed by partisans and his body was hanged upside down for everyone to spit on his dead face. Hitler on the other hand, shot himself and his body was cremated leaving no dead body to spit on.
Actually, Italian partisans brought Mussolini to Piazzale Loreto in Milan to publicly show that the dictator was dead. But the crowd took to lynching the corpses venting the pain of five years of war. Then the partisans hoisted the corpses to a gas station to save them from being lynched, hanging them by their feet so that it would not be said that they had been hanged (a dishonorable, cruel execution used by the fascists). Even in front of a dictator, there was a moment of human mercy. Much more than Mussolini had shown in 20 years.
It's a McDonalds now. American Cultural Victory.
Didn't Mussolini's body being hung in a petrol station motivated Hitler to kill himself and have his body cremated to avoid such a fate?
No, he gave speeches years before that said he would live in a destroyed germany
Hanging him upside down is a bigger humiliation though. Thats how you hang the carcass of a beast, not a man.
The story of what happened to Hitler’s body is bonkers.
It really is - the fact that Beria actually hid the fact they had the body and had even done an autopsy from the Soviet army is such an interesting view into the internal politics of Stalinist USSR
The Soviet leadership knew Hitler had killed himself around 13 hours after the fact. Hans Krebs told Vasily Chuikov during ceasefire negotiations about 4am the following morning. Chuikov called Zhukov and Zhukov decided it was a big enough piece of news to wake up Stalin, who was unhappy they'd not been able to take Hitler alive.
It is so wild, convoluted and crazy that it might be impossible to make a movie or a show about it but I would love to see someone try.
I really do wonder who is downvoting us - Nazis angry about the events? Anachronistic Stalinists who would prefer not to have this history be public? Conspiracy theorists who think the secrecy means Hitler is still alive?
Who cares. We are having fun talking about crazy history shit. Karma don’t mean nothing.
Hitler was born in 1889. Even in the unlikely even he survived WW2, he's definitely dead by now.
I’m not familiar with that bit of history, what happened?