230 The Adventures of Mussolini’s Corpse

The Weird History Podcast - A podcast by Joe Streckert

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After his death in 1945, Mussolini’s corpse was autopsied and thrown into a pauper’s grave. But, that was just the beginning of the cadaver’s posthumous career. Eventually the body was stolen by neofascists, hidden away for over a decade, and used as a political bargaining chip in postwar Italy.