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Fascist and Nazi Love Fest

Fascist and Nazi Love Fest

Enthusiastic Italians wave Nazi and Fascist flags during Hitler's 1938 state visit to Italy. Hitler and the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini died two days apart in 1945: the former commited suicide; the latter was executed.

Photo: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

May 01, 1938