On 29 April 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed Fascists were loaded into a moving van and trucked south to
Milan. There, at 3:00 am, they were dumped on the ground in the old
Piazzale Loreto. The piazza had been renamed "Piazza Quindici Martiri" in honor of 15 anti-Fascists recently executed there. After being shot, kicked, and spat upon, the bodies were hung upside down on
meat hooks from the roof of an
Esso gas station
