Benito Mussolini was the dictator of Fascist Italy during World War II. Althrough he was less racist, ended slavery, crushed the Mafia and defended European Jews from the Holocaust, he was allies with Nazi Germany and Japan. Mussolini overthrew the democratic system and turned Italy into a one party fascist state. He had poltical enemies and people who disagreed with him public exercuted or exiled. Organised invasions of Africa to boast the Italian empire, had his secret police force patrol his country and censored all ideas that disagreed with his own, he also later went on to criticise religion for not allowing enough "free thought". Arround 300,000 were killed while under his rule. He and his mistress Clara Petacci was captured and executed by firing squad on April 25, 1945.