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An Italian soldier is greeted by Benito Mussolini.
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The young officer talking to Mussolini is not just any Italian soldier. He's prince Umberto, heir to the Italian throne when this photograph was taken (probably in 1940) and later, briefly, King of Italy before the country became a republic in 1946.
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