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6 days ago · The life of Edda Mussolini and her marriage to Galeazzo Ciano has been the subject of books, films, and documentaries. Their story highlights the intersection of personal and political drama. Romano Mussolini's music career brought a different kind of fame to the family. His jazz performances and recordings gained him recognition in the music ...
Sep 1, 2024 · Galeazzo Ciano originally agreed with Eugen Dollmann to give the documents to the Germans and escape to South America with his family, but they betrayed him and executed him instead.
1 day ago · In 1944, Benito Mussolini's daughter, Edda, gave Hitler and her father an ultimatum: release her husband, Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband's journals to the press.
3 days ago · The Fascist Party was instrumental in directing and popularising support for Mussolini's ideology. In the early years, groups within the PNF called Blackshirts (squadristi) built a base of power by violently attacking socialists and their institutions in the rural Po Valley, thereby gaining the support of landowners.
6 days ago · His sister, Edda, married Count Galeazzo Ciano, who served as Italy's Foreign Minister. The Mussolini family continued to be a prominent name in Italy, even after the fall of the Fascist regime. Bruno's life has been the subject of numerous books and documentaries, exploring his role in history.
2 days ago · Also during the summer of 1940, Galeazzo Ciano met with Hitler and Ribbentrop and proposed to them the dissection of Switzerland along the central chain of the Western Alps, which would have left Italy also with the canton of Valais in addition to the claims raised earlier.
6 days ago · His foreign secretary and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, recorded that during a long, inconclusive discussion at the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini at first agreed that Italy must not go to war, “then he said that honour compelled him to march with Germany.”
