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The death of Hitler
希特勒之死
William L. Shirer
威廉·L.夏勒
During the afternoon of April 29, news arrived at the bunker where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were separated from the outside world. Mussolini, Hitler's fellow fascist dictator and partner in aggression, had met his end, and it had been shared by his mistress, Clara Petacci.
4月29日下午，消息傳到了阿道夫·希特勒和愛娃·勃勞恩居住的與外界隔絕的地堡里。希特勒的同類，法西斯獨裁者和侵略伙伴墨索里尼已經見到了末日，他的情婦克拉拉·貝塔西也落得個同樣下場。
They had been caught by Italian guerrillas on April 27 while trying to escape to Switzerland and executed after a brief trial. On the Saturday night of April 28 the bodies were brought to Milan in a truck and dumped on the town square. The next day they were strung up by the heels from lampposts and later cut down so that throughout the rest of Sunday, they lay in the gutter. On May Day Benito Mussolini was buried beside his mistress in the paupers' plot of a Milan cemetery. In such a horrible climax of degradation Mussolini and Fascism passed into history.
４月27日，當墨索里尼與其情婦試圖逃往瑞士時，被意大利游擊隊抓獲，經簡短審訊之后，即被處決。4月28日的那個星期六夜里，兩具尸體被卡車運到米蘭，扔在市廣場上。次日他們被用繩子倒掛在燈柱上，后來有人將繩子割斷，于是在那個星期天剩下的時間里，他們就躺在陰溝里。五一節那天，本尼托·墨索里尼和他的情婦被一起埋在米蘭公墓的乞丐墳場里。就在這樣的奇恥大辱中，墨索里尼和法西斯主義被掃進了歷史的垃圾堆。
It is not known how many of the details of Mussolini's shabby end were communicated to the Fuehrer. One can only guess that if he heard many of them he was only strengthened in his resolve not to allow himself or his bride to be made a spectacle — not their live selves or their bodies.
至今無人知曉，墨索里尼的可恥下場有多少具體細節傳到了元首的耳里。人們只能猜測，如果他確實聽到了不少有關情況的話，這只能加強他的決心：不讓他自己或他的新娘被示眾，丟人眼前—不論是生前，還是死后。
