Editing Galeazzo Ciano (section)

==Exile, trial and death==
[[File:Processo Verona 1944.png|thumb|right|Ciano trial in [[Verona]], 1944.]]
Ciano was dismissed from his post by the new government of Italy put in place after his father-in-law was overthrown. Ciano, Edda and their three children fled to Germany on 28 August 1943 in fear of being arrested by the new Italian government. The Germans turned him over to Mussolini's new government, the [[Italian Social Republic]]. He was then formally arrested on charges of treason. Under German and Fascist pressure, Mussolini had Ciano imprisoned before he was tried and found guilty.<ref name="Palla">{{cite journal |title=Mussolini il fascista numero uno |publisher=Fondazione Istituto Gramsci |jstor=20565036 |date=10 January 1982 |volume=23 |issue=1 |first=Marco |last=Palla |journal=Studi Storici |pages=23–49 |issn=0039-3037 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20565036 |access-date=27 July 2021 |editor1-first=Leonardo |editor1-last=Rapone |editor2-first=Alexander |editor2-last=Höbel |location=Rome, Italy |editor3-first=Alessandro |editor3-last=Larussa |language=Italian }}</ref> After the [[Verona trial]] and sentence, on 11 January 1944, Ciano was executed by a [[firing squad]] along with four others ([[Emilio De Bono]], [[Luciano Gottardi]], [[Giovanni Marinelli]] and [[Carlo Pareschi]]) who had voted for Mussolini's ousting. As a further humiliation, the condemned men were tied to chairs and shot in the back, though, allegedly, Ciano managed to twist his chair around at the last minute to face the firing squad before uttering his final words, "Long live Italy!"<ref name="Telegraph 17 April 2009">{{cite news |title=Mussolini's daughter's affair with communist revealed in love letters |date=17 April 2009 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5172897/Mussolinis-daughters-affair-with-communist-revealed-in-love-letters.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group]] |location=London |editor1-first=Tony |editor1-last=Gallagher |editor1-link=Tony Gallagher (editor) |archive-date=22 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422174421/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5172897/Mussolinis-daughters-affair-with-communist-revealed-in-love-letters.html |access-date=25 July 2021 }}.</ref>

Ciano is remembered for his ''Diaries 1937–1943'',<ref>{{cite thesis |degree=Bachelor of Arts |first=Paige Y. |last=Durgin |location=Hartford, CT |title=Framed in Death: The Historical Memory of Galeazzo Ciano |publisher=[[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity College]] |language=en |format=PDF |date=Spring 2012 |access-date=27 July 2021 |url=https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1151&context=theses}}</ref> a revealing daily record of his meetings with Mussolini, [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], [[Joachim von Ribbentrop|Ribbentrop]], foreign ambassadors and other political figures. Edda tried to barter his papers to the Germans in return for his life; Gestapo agents helped her confidant [[Emilio Pucci]] rescue some of them from Rome. Pucci was then a lieutenant in the Italian Air Force, but would find fame after the war as a fashion designer. When Hitler vetoed the plan, she hid the bulk of the papers at a clinic in [[Ramiola]], near [[Medesano]] and on 9 January 1944, Pucci helped Edda escape to Switzerland with five diaries covering the war years which were then buried beneath a rose garden.{{sfn|Smyth|Ciano|1993|pp=1-50|}} The diary was first published in English in [[London]] in 1946, edited by [[Malcolm Muggeridge]], covering 1939 to 1943.{{sfn|Ciano|1947}} The complete English version was published in 2002.{{sfn|Ciano|2002}}