Other Dictators And Their Fates

This is an undated file photo of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. While attempting to flee Italy by train on April 27, 1945, near the village of Dongo (Como Lake), Mussolini, along with his mistress, Claretta Petacci, was caught by Italian partisans. The day after, April 28, they were both executed along with 16 others who had been traveling with them.

Italian dictator and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, known as Il Duce (the leader), reviews troops Oct. 29, 1937, in Rome, followed by Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy as Nazi Party leader.

A photo dated December 1981 of former Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, right, and his wife, Elena, during their 1981 winter holidays at one of their residences in Bucharest.

On March 21, 1990, news agency Rompres released this picture of the body of the ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceaucescu, reportedly taken immediately after his execution Dec. 25, 1989, in Bucharest. Ceaucescu and his wife, Elena, were deposed by the army and executed by firing squad after being found guilty by an army tribunal of "crimes against the people," including genocide that allegedly led to 60,000 deaths.

Romanian TV footage broadcast this image of the body of Elena Ceaucescu, the wife of the ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceaucescu. An anti-Communist uprising culminated in the Ceaucescus' executions on Dec. 25, 1989, ending a 24-year dictatorship.

This photo dated February 1988 shows Serbian Communist leader Slobodan Milosevic. Human rights advocates hope the course of justice for Saddam Hussein will generally follow the model of Milosevic, who was flown to a U.N. war crimes court in the Netherlands in June 2001. His trial has proceeded for more than three years.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic appears for the fourth time before the court of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Dec. 11, 2001. Milosevic is charged on the basis of his individual and superior criminal responsibility with genocide and crimes against humanity involving persecution, extermination and murder.

In this undated photo, Adolf Hitler is shown relaxing with his mistress, Eva Braun. During the final days of World War II, on April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin, together with Braun, whom he had finally married.

Adolf Hitler and his staff salute the teams during the opening ceremonies of the XI Olympic Games Aug. 1, 1936, in Berlin, Germany.