Affectionate Quote by Galeazzo Ciano

“Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.”

— Catherine McNamara

“This crude, cowardly bargain seems not to have unduly bothered Hitler. If Mussolini was personally attracted to him, as Ciano said, by “something deeply…

— William L. Shirer

“Mussolini and Horthy to different degrees feared Hitler and were suspicious of German military power, but by building their regimes on the basis of…

— Robert Gerwarth

“He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a…

— John Boyne

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

— Otto Skorzeny

“Attempting to escape across the Swiss border on 26 April 1945, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, her brother Marcello and fifteen others were…

— Andrew Roberts

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,

— Guido Calabresi

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War,…

— Hisham Matar

“There is no rationality in the Nazi hatred: it is hate that is not in us, it is outside of man.. We cannot understand…

— Primo Levi

“ Heil Hitler ," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.”

— John Boyne

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs…

— Rick Riordan