Bombastic Mussolini, the Sawdust Caesar, comes to his end in the gutter, fitting climax to a life of treachery and double cross. He led his country to ruin, when he threw his lot in with Hitler. Oh yes, they saw some palmy days when Il Duce confidently stabbed France in the back. He had dreams of empire, before the bayonets of the allied deflated this false prophet. He was captured once before, and rescued by German paratroops. This time he had no such chance. Partisans tried him, along with his sweetheart and several henchmen. Just as these pictures show the trial previously of other key fascists and collaborators, he was brought before a firing squad and in this manner he died, as tyrants should, and was hung up by his heals. A fitting, and glorious end!