The Dongo Treasure was the valuables in Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's possession at the time of his capture and execution.
[1] At the time of Benito Mussolini's capture, on April 27, 1945, the Italian resistance fighter Urbano Lazzaro seized two cases of valuables and documents.
[1] Additionally, Mussolini's German escorts had discarded three bags of valuables in a river.
These contained gold jewelry that Italian citizens had donated to the Fascists during the 1935 Oro alla Patria fundraising campaign for Mussolini's Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
[1] Partisans stopped two Germans in an expensive Fiat automobile found to carry 33 million lire.