Urbano Lazzaro
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Urbano Lazzaro (November 4, 1924 – January 3, 2006)
Lazzaro was born in Quinto Vicentino in the Veneto region. As a young man, he joined the Italian Guardia di Finanza before the war. When Italy's alliance with Germany collapsed in 1943, Lazzaro was among many Italian officials arrested by the Germans.
Lazzaro escaped from German detention and joined the
Lazzaro was not present at Mussolini's subsequent execution. However, he investigated the execution after the war and came to believe that Mussolini was shot the same day he was arrested, in contrast to the officially accepted version of events. Lazzaro published a book on this topic titled Dongo: la Fine di Mussolini in 1962.
Lazzaro went on to become an executive of the Piedmont Hydroelectric Authority after the war. He later moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he and his wife had three children. During his wartime combat he was known as "Bill." He died in a hospital in Vercelli, Italy, in 2006, at age 81, having outlived almost all the other leading partisans.
External links
- Italian resistance fighter dead at 81, Sudbury Star(ON). World, Thursday, January 5, 2006, p. C7. accessed on October 6, 2006.
- Obituary