The city council of Salò, the northern Italian city where Benito Mussolini set up the Fascist German-puppet Italian Social Republic (RSI) in the last two and a half years of WWII, has revoked his ...

A small town on Italy's Lake Garda that was home to Italy's last fascist government voted late on Wednesday to cancel an ...

Almost 80 years after the death of Benito Mussolini, the Italian town of Salò on Lake Garda has revoked the fascist dictator's honorary citizenship.

"The ideas represented by honorary citizenship to Mussolini no longer have space in today's Italy and Salò," says Francesco Cagnini, twenty-nine-year-old mayor of Salò, in announcing the revocation.

The Italian town of Salo on the shores of Lake Garda, a short-lived Fascist Republic during World War II, has revoked Mussolini’s honorary dictatorship, local authorities said Thursday. Salo was from ...

Mussolini was Italy's leader from 1922 to 1943, but he also led a Nazi-allied administration limited to the north of the country in 1943-1945, which was headquartered in Salo. The town ...