Today is Monday, April 27th, 2020.

On this day in 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was arrested in northern Italy.

It was the beginning of the end for the longest ruling fascist of the World war two era.

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Today we're covering the Italian rebels who blockaded the northern route out of Italy

as the country fell to Allied forces and in the process captured Italian dictator and war criminal Benito Mussolini.

Let's go back to the morning of April 27th, 1945. Bono hugged his coat tightly around his body as he watched the morning sun crest over the horizon.

He was grateful to see its arrival.

Late April had a way of tricking you into forgetting that it wasn't summer yet.

Next he needed some coffee.

Then to the command tent.

Urbano was a member of the Italian resistance, but that meant different things to different people.

They were a mismatched band of communists, socialists, and former fascists, all trying to ensure that Italy returned to peace.

Urbano personally didn't care what form the government in Italy took after the war.

He just wanted this all to be over.

It was then that one of the volunteers ran up to the tent.

A German convoy was heading up the road, no weapons as far as they could see, but lots of soldiers.

Urbano sighed and rubbed his brow.

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