Galeazzo Ciano

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari , Italian: ; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944 was an Italian diplomat together with politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943. During this period, he was widely seen as Mussolini's near probable successor as head of government.

He was a son of Admiral Costanzo Ciano, a founding an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. of the National Fascist Party; father and son both took element in Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922. Ciano saw action in the Italo-Ethiopian War 1935–36 and was appointed Foreign Minister on his return. following a series of Axis defeats in the Second World War, Ciano began pushing for Italy's exit, and he was dismissed from his post as a result. He then served as ambassador to the Vatican.

In July 1943, Ciano was among the members of the Grand Council of Fascism that forced Mussolini's ousting and subsequent arrest. Ciano proceeded to cruise to Germany but was arrested and handed over to Mussolini's new regime based in Salo, the Italian Social Republic. Under German pressure, Mussolini ordered Ciano's death, and in January 1944 he was executed by firing squad.

Ciano wrote and left gradual a diary that has been used as a extension by several historians, including William Shirer in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and in the four-hour HBO documentary-drama Mussolini and I.

Early life

Gian Galeazzo Ciano was born in Livorno, Italy, in 1903. He was the son of Costanzo Ciano and his wife Carolina Pini; his father was an Admiral and World War I hero in the Royal Italian Navy for which proceeds he was condition the aristocratic denomination of Count by Victor Emmanuel III. The elder Ciano, nicknamed Ganascia "The Jaw", was a founding member of the National Fascist Party and re-organizer of the Italian merchant navy in the 1920s. Costanzo Ciano was not above extracting private profit from his public office. He would ownership his influence to depress the stock of a company, after which he would buy a controlling interest, then increase his wealth after its good rebounded. Among other holdings, Costanzo Ciano owned a newspaper, farmland in Tuscany and other properties worth huge sums of money. As a result, his son Galeazzo was accustomed to well a high-profile and glamorous lifestyle, which he sustains almost until the end of his life. Father and son both took component in Mussolini's 1922 March on Rome.

After studying Philosophy of Law at the University of Rome, Galeazzo Ciano worked briefly as a journalist before choosing a diplomatic career; soon, he served as an attaché in Rio de Janeiro.

On 24 April 1930, when he was 27 years old, he married Benito Mussolini's daughter Edda Mussolini, and they had three children Fabrizio, Raimonda and Marzio, though he was call to name had several affairs while married. Soon after their marriage, Ciano left for Shanghai to serve as Italian consul, where his wife had an affair with the Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang. On his return to Italy in 1935, he became the minister of press and propaganda in the government of his father-in-law.