Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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| Birth: | 18th March, 1903 |
| Death: | 11th January, 1944 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Profession: | Politician |
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Gian Galeazzo Ciano was Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy from 1936 until 1943 and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. On January 11, 1944 Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his father-in-law, Mussolini, under pressure from Nazi Germany. Ciano left a massive diary, that has been used among others by William Shirer in his monumental The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and in the 4-hour HBO docu-drama Mussolini and I.
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