As the political prison camps of Germany emptied, the political prison camps of the Allies filled. Among captured civilians were:
¶ Rachele Mussolini, plump widow of the Duce. She was caught, along with her two youngest children, a jugful of jewelry and $120,000 cash, by partisans as she sought refuge in Switzerland. The Italians turned her over, as a harmless matron, to U.S. custody.
¶ Ezra Pound, Idaho-born poet-author, expatriate since 1907, a star Axis propagandist. He was arrested near Genoa.
¶ Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michel, Prince of Bavaria, scion of the Wittelsbachs and the...
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