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Dictator Benito Mussolini’s Clothing to Be Auctioned, WSJ Says

By Chris Peterson - Sep 16, 2011

A brown leather suitcase of clothes taken from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini before he was shot by partisans in 1945 is to be auctioned in Dallas this week and may fetch as much as $15,000, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The clothing was taken as war booty by a U.S. Army corporal, the newspaper said.

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