Benito+Mussolini

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 * As the head of the National Fascist Party of Italy Benito Mussolini had a large impact on World War II. He wasn't always a powerful dictator though, at first he was a school teacher and a socialist journalist He was the editor of the Avanti, which was a socialist party newspaper in Milan. In 1937 Benito Mussolini persuaded Austria to enter into a formal alliance with Germany as Italy had done. This alliance was very good for Germany because when World War II started Austria and Italy would fight with Germany's as part of the Axis Powers. As the war was coming to an end and the Axis Powers was being defeated Mussolini was captured by his fellow countrymen. He was tortured and mutilated to death. His murder was very horrifying and disgusting. Mussolini was a very important figure from World War II and should be remembered for that even though he was a horrible man. **