A sanctuary for Mussolini.

in 1945 was a country on the earth in which Benito Mussolini could find a safe refuge without the risk extradition?
I'm sure that for Hitler this was impossible,but for Mussolini?
 
in 1945 was a country on the earth in which Benito Mussolini could find a safe refuge without the risk extradition?
I'm sure that for Hitler this was impossible,but for Mussolini?
Best option would be legal exile to an Allied island, St. Helena or Norfolk Island may work. It's not the Allies you need to protect him from, but his countrymen.
 
Spain or Argentina, but he'll have to live under an assumed name and always be looking over his shoulder. After all the leader of one of the main Axis powers would be the most wanted criminal on the face of the Earth. The other option is that Spain lets him live there in semi-secrecy (like they did for Ante Pavelic), but that might be too risky for Franco.
 

TinyTartar

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Argentina is the best choice, by far.

Spain could have done so, but Franco was a crafty survivor who realized that Fascism of the old style was not going to be tolerated by the new powers in town, and if he wanted to reestablish ties with the West, he needed to put Mussolini behind him.
 
Could he have tried to live secretly in Libya, Tunisia, or even the US? He would pretty much have to stay indoors or at out of the way estate, but all three have large Italian populations.

I agree that he would be better in Argentina away from Europe.
 
Could he have tried to live secretly in Libya, Tunisia, or even the US? He would pretty much have to stay indoors or at out of the way estate, but all three have large Italian populations.

I agree that he would be better in Argentina away from Europe.
Libya or Tunisia might work, but their much less comfortable and more risky than Argentina. The US wouldn't work at all, for the same reason that Hitler moving to the US wouldn't work despite the large German population there.
 
Could he have tried to live secretly in Libya, Tunisia, or even the US? He would pretty much have to stay indoors or at out of the way estate, but all three have large Italian populations.

I agree that he would be better in Argentina away from Europe.

Mussolini can hide in USA only if he understand hide his real personality. And I bit doubt can he do that. And if he accidentally tries search asylum with mafia family, he is pretty much same as dead.
 
First to Switzerland, hand over those papers that Mr Churchill was looking for and then a sad exile in Spain, in conditions little different from house arrest in some remote country location.
 
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