A Wargaming trip to Piazzale Loreto

The "Wargaming" part is totally BS as Piazzale Loreto (Milano, but far to the northeast from Duomo and Vittor Emanuele galleries) became famous due to two WW2 events that are hardly passed into the tabletop. So the title only has the intention to call your attention (he,he). 

This was the place were Mussolini´s dead body was displaced, head down, together with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and three other fascists on the 29 April 1945. Mussolini has been killed by partizans the day before near Lake Como. 

This scene always caused horror to some and indifference to others. Horror because this is not the way to display a dead body but indifference due to the fact that Mussolini in the end, not being the monster that Hitler was, was ultimately the responsible for WW2 and its 85 millions of dead, as it headed fascism, which lead to nazism, not forgetting Japan´s imperialism. We can always say that if it was not Mussolini leading the process someone else would, but try to say that to the people of the 20s, 30s and 40s that suffered with the process. Mussolini and the other corpses were displayed from the blue parking plate to the left in the place were a McDonalds restaurant stands. 

The "head down" show has another revengeful meaning: this was the place and way in which 15 Italian partizans were shown to the population after being shot by a joint effort of the fascist Oberdan group and the SS of Theo Saevecke. In fact Piazzale Loreto was called the Piazza Quindici Martiri (Square of the 15 Martyrs) for some years after the war before returning to its previous name. 

This period picture was taken from the aproximate place of my previous picture (in fact a bit to the right due to traffic). Mussolini and four others were displayed hanging from the roof of the local Esso petrol station, now the place of the McDonalds restaurant of the first picture.  

This nice period picture shows the Esso station in the centre left. 

From under the roof of McDonalds you can be under the place were the corpses were hanging. 

In this "then and now" picture available on the web you can have a better idea. 

This last composition from the web is great as it shows with the A and B point the exact places were you can live the situation. 

With this post and this visit I want to stress the nowadays forgiveness about fascist and nazi crimes from the 20s up to mid 40s. There is no plate, no nothing signalling this event that has been showned hundred of times in history books. And this is true all over Europe, both East and West were these crimes seemed to have been placed in the same category of Feudalism or Industrial Revolution, just a normal part of history from were we should move on, forgetting that dark clouds being blown everywere from people missing the 20´s in Italy and the 30´s in Germany, Portugal and Spain not missing the tendency. 

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