Inside Mussolini's wartime bunker: First pictures of fascist leader's secret lair (Daily Mail)

• - Experts said the underground chamber was the dictator's 'last bunker' 

• - It was only discovered after engineers stumbled across an iron hatch 

• - Bunker contains nine rooms but was never finished before he was arrested 

• - The chamber, under the former fascist headquarters, will be open to public 

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• By HANNAH ROBERTS 

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• "Pictures of Benito Mussolini's last wartime bunker that he built to protect him from an RAF bomb attack have been released for the first time. 

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• The reinforced concrete cell, constructed 50ft below the former fascist headquarters in Rome, was so secret it was not discovered until 2011. 

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• Historians believe Mussolini, one of Hitler's closest allies during the Second World War, had the underground bunker built for himself and his mistress Claretta Petacci."

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