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On 28 July 1942, with the Wehrmacht driving on Stalingrad, Stalin issued Order No. 227: retreat without written orders, and face a penal battalion, the Gulag, or a bullet from your own side. It may have helped save the front. That is not the same as justifying it.
On 13 June 1944, Germany launched eleven V-1 flying bombs at England. Four arrived. Six people died. Over the next eleven months, roughly 10,000 more followed - and the world's first cruise missile campaign killed more than 6,000 Britons and pushed 1.5 million out of London.
On 28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini was shot at a roadside near Lake Como and hung upside down from a petrol station in Milan. The man who invented fascism ended as a public spectacle in a piazza he had helped make notorious.