Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Thursday May 8. W5the stars an St Caks. # of Leathart r Der fuehrer was arrogant in Reich Stag upper left denouncing nazis1 naval pact with Britain tearing up non Aggree Aion treaty with Poland. Outside upper right he and Stooge Rudolf Hera were cheered. When Hitler visited Brenner pass lower left italian fascists fawned. But today Goose stepping legions lower right Are beaten and fleeing. Ignominy of death fit Mussolini s life when Benito Mussolini met a degrading death near Milan it was a fit Ling end for the big chinned dictator and the Grade b Empire he founded on Castor Oil Hung by the heels his body spat upon and pummelled by his countrymen ii Duce a Fate May also be symbolic of the Rise and fall �1 dictatorship in the 30th Century. He was the first of the International gangster Bosses to raise his a Black banners of Conquest and he was the first to die. Partisans Hung the Duce and seven others on the rack in the Public Square of Milan. They looked like slaughtered cattle. It was easy to identify Mussolini s Square jaw and Bald head upside Down under a White sweat shirt. Alongside was the body of his Beautiful Young mistress Claretta Petacci 25, her slim shapely legs encased in Slik stockings her Black hair rippling in the Breeze. Bom 61 years ago Mussolini was never More than a Bush Maguey compared to his hanging pal Hitler. Mussolini came to prominence in War in tic year bowing world by 19j5 Mussolini Felt himself Ronk enough to openly Seise the control which he previously had exerting upon Italy from it i m a ground manipulated a a a it in saddled him ii a Lnig a Utor it of 1� a minuted to ecu a exec hl5 March toward world con paper quest on the Side of Adolf Hitler began about ten years later when he committed. Italy to the unprovoked assault on Ethiopia. Mussolini then hysterically proclaimed the rebirth of the old roman Empire and sent 40,000 italian soldiers and 0,000 airmen into the Spanish civil War. Ii Duce took part in the ill of amp Tod Munich conference of 1038, then applauded from the sidelines As Hitler swallowed up Czechoslovakia. On Good priday 1030, Mussolini thought it was time to grab a Little More of the Good Earth for himself. Violating pledges Given prime minister Churchill he invaded tiny Albania. Just about a year later the fascist dictator took another bold step. With the French falling apart under the nazi Mita he declared War on prance. President Roosevelt called it a Quot Stab in the Back and that was phrasing it politely. .<7. Mussolini had dreams of grandeur but  a despised Man even Jas partner killer referring to him As Mouth without a  any doubt death report not a single Allied tear was shed yesterday for Adolf Hitler. President Truman left the White House with a Broad Grin on his face 15 minutes after hearing the news.  troops on the Western front emptied every bottle in their messes to Mark the end of their no. 1 enemy for nearly six years. In Toronto an effigy of Hitler was burned at a downtown intersection. V the big bums is finished in new York s grand Central station commuters got their news from an irreverent newsboy whose shout was Quot paperhanger is dead. Hitler the big bum is  and at Percy Jones general Hospital at Battle Creek mich., wounded soldiers were sorry for one reason that they could not have been responsible for his death. 1 wanted to do it Quot said sgt. Fiber Vincent of Wells vice Ohio who lost a leg in Luxembourg. T Hope it wa6 slow real slow Quot added t-5 Raymond Odell of Cleveland wounded in Germany. T had All kinds of ways figured  gis demand picture of body among soldiers recently liberated Page 2 tomorrow what made Hitler tick what the real Story of the Man with the Mustache who plunged the world into the bloodiest War in history read the. Inside facts As related by Louis p. Lochner pulitzer prize Winner and Ace reporter who As head. Of the associated press Berlin Bureau knew Hitler intimately and Well. Lochner a series starts tomorrow on Page e 2. From Germany there was general scepticism. Most of the patients at Gardiner and Vaughan veterans hospitals in Chicago refused to believe it Quot unless shown a picture of his body like the one recently published of . Bald one of them t-5 Paul h. Dalton of Madison wis. Quot Hitler can never be forgiven but at least now he can be forgotten.9 overseas the reaction was similar. In Nice a pretty nightclub entertainer told american soldiers its a pity you did t get your hands on him and make him suffer Quot Moscow was frankly unbelieving. Quot a new fascist trick Quot snorted the soviet radio. Quot the germans Evi Denty Hope to prepare for Hitler the possibility of disappearing from the scene and moving  the new York times in an editorial said that Quot the nazis made lies so much a part of their politics that the announcement of Hitler s death is bound to leave a suspicion that the master liar is attempting to perpetrate one last great hoax on the  the new York Herald Tribune said Quot Hitler began in nothing and he ends in it widow arrested a. Swiss radio report said that Mussolini s widow Donna and their two youngest children had been arrested at the Itak it a iss Frontier near which Mussolini was executed. New chief ruthless grand adm. Karl Doe nits Germany s new fuehrer won a reputation for ruthlessness As commander in chief of the German Navy. It was Doenitz who inspired its submarine Wolf pack Quot attacks on Allied shipping. German radio said yesterday Doenitz was Hitler s Choice to take the Helm of the third Reich in the event of his death. Doenitz is known As a hard bitter Man who trained his underwater Crews to be utterly murderous during the War for which he had been preparing Many years in Advance. Developed a boat lairs at the outset of the War Doenitz was at sea a month after War was declared he Sank the British aircraft Carrier Royal Oak. After France fell Doenitz developed underground submarine lairs on the French Atlantic coast in january 1943, the 63-year old a boat chief was named grand Admiral and made commander in chief of German naval forces succeeding grand Admiral Raeder. His first act was to dismiss All nazi senior admirals. Under him submarine construction became m High priority item. Doenitz s popularity in the German Navy was undoubted and German propaganda soon raised him to the position of a Superman