As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all.
Italian noble, diplomat and politician (1903-1944)
Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, the man who helped steer Italy into the Axis and then voted to depose the Duce — only to be handed back by the Germans and shot on Mussolini's orders.
Galeazzo Ciano was the son of Admiral Costanzo Ciano, a founding Fascist who marched on Rome in 1922 with his boy in tow. He saw combat in Ethiopia in 1935, returned to become Foreign Minister at thirty-three, and married into the regime — his father-in-law was Benito Mussolini. For seven years he ran Italian diplomacy and was widely assumed to be next in line. As the war turned, Ciano pushed for an exit; Mussolini dismissed him and sent him to the Vatican as ambassador. In July 1943 he joined the Grand Council vote that toppled Mussolini, then fled to Germany — where he was arrested and deliv…
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