When Mussolini Met Hitler 1944

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Title reads: "When Mussolini met Hitler - Captured Enemy Propaganda Films".

Italy and Germany.

Various shots of Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) in civilian clothes being helped into a light aircraft by German soldiers at an Italian airfield.

Various shots in Germany of an aircraft...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44475
Sort Number:
44/001
Time in/Out:
01:33:09:00 / 01:34:16:00
Canister:
44/1
Film ID:
1348.22
Issue Date:
03/01/1944

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  • "Mussolini (Il Duce) in civilian clothes being helped into a light aircraft" - it's a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch.

    The man behind Mussolini as he sits in the Storch is Otto Skorzeny, the German field commander who led the rescue mission that freed Mussolini.

    jamied 20th Aug 2012

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