【全国英语等级考试四级】Unit 6 Great man II- Passage (1/5)

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Unit 6 Great man II- Passage (1/5)
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        The Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler
        Mussolini
        Milan
        May Day
         
The Death of Hitler
During the afternoon on April 29th, news arrived at the shelter where Adolf Hitler and his mistress were separated from the outside world. Mussolini, Hitler's fellow fascist dictator and partner, had met his end, together with his mistress.
They had been caught on April 27th while trying to escape and executed after a brief trial. On the following night the bodies were brought to Milan in a truck and thrown on the town square. The next day they were hung by the heels from lamp posts and later cut down so that they lay there throughout the next day. Then on May Day they were buried in the poor's plot of a Milan cemetery. In such a horrible climax of degradation Mussolini and fascism passed into history.
It is not known how many of the details of Mussolini's shabby end were communicated to Hitler.