Hitler, Mussolini, Ceausescu, Saddam. Photos That Shook The World

• Benito Mussolini
On 26 April 1945, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were captured near Lake Como in northern Italy. Two days later, after a simulated process have been killed and authorities have published pictures. Their bodies and five other fellow fascists were exposed in the market Loreto in Milan, hanging by their feet. The crowd cursed and shot them with pistols.

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• Adolf Hitler
Over time, numerous theories have circulated on behalf of Hitler’s death. He found death in the bunker or run? Stalin himself said in 1945 that the dictator is alive and hiding somewhere. Suspicions were strengthened and the lack of photos. A picture has brought many question marks. He said it was Hitler who even appear, but eventually the information was denied and was told that it was Gustav Weler, arrived Fuhrer, found dead in the bunker.

After much speculation, it was learned that the dictator has shot a bullet through the head, and his mistress Eva Braun was poisoned with cyanide. It would have been burned and buried three meters from the door hatch. In 1956, magistrates German official said that Hitler had died in 1945 and have published the photo of the skull. About which, in 2009, US authorities said, after DNA tests that would actually belongs to a woman.

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• Nicolae Ceausescu
On 25 December 1989, after a short and expeditious process, Nicolae Ceausescu and wife Elena were declared guilty of genocide and sentenced to death. They were shot in the courtyard of a military base in Targoviste. That same evening, authorities released pictures of the execution. The two were buried in the cemetery Ghencea under false names. In 2010, the bodies were exhumed and their identity has been verified. Analyses showed that it was Ceausescu.

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• Saddam Hussein
Arrested in December 2003, Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death in November 2006 for “crimes against humanity.” Four days later, was hanged in Baghdad. Video images were broadcast on the Internet and on TV.