In 1939, the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, signed a “Pact of Steel” committing their two countries to a military and political alliance.

While not an elected leader per se, though influential nonetheless, the figure of Galeazzo Ciano (pronounced “Chano”), was tapped by Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as his chief ...

Victory, as Count Galeazzo Ciano once wrote, has a hundred fathers. But defeat is an orphan. Article continues after this advertisement. Readers by now will be familiar with the tale I’ve chronicled ...

Galeazzo Ciano was Mussolini's foreign affairs minister and his son-in-law. He was also a meticulous journal keeper, and the first complete English translation (by Robert L. Miller and Stanislao G ...

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Galeazzo Ciano, Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law and foreign minister, famously observed, “Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.” For the President’s party, the last time impeachment ...

That was the case with Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano, who was widely hated by Italians for trying to be a “mini-Duce,” even imitating Mussolini’s habit of thrusting his jaw ...

Mussolini conversing with Humberto of Savoy in a captured area of the Alps. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons However, all objections proved futile, and the government decreed Italy’s ...

In propaganda neither Edda nor Galeazzo saw much future. When Il Duce got ready to start a war, they did, however, see that Count Ciano as an aviator dropped the first bombs, and was the first ...

It is a far cry from the neighboring region of Lezhe, where Italian Count Galeazzo Ciano, Benito Mussolini‘s playboy foreign minister and son-in-law, used to spend weekends at his hunting lodge ...

Mussolini summarily order the execution of his son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, on the charge of treason, February 6, 1943, before Mussolini was ultimately rounded up and killed by Italian socialist ...

"Reportedly the new owner was Italian foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano. "Hence the transplant of the original “D” on the rear fender with “I” for Italy, but this is not documented.