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Giuseppina Tuissi

Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)
Giuseppina Tuissi, better known as Gianna (also La Staffetta Gianna; 23 June 1923 – 23 June 1945) was an Italian communist and partisan during World War II, part of the 52nd Brigata Garibaldi "Luigi Clerici". From September 1944 she was the collaborator of the partisan Luigi Canali (known as the captain Neri) and, with him, had an important role in the arrest and the execution of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci.

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