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- Ciano shifted with Axis fortunes. He backed the poorly planned invasion of Greece (October 1940). Then, after enforced air service in the disaster, he again plotted Mussolini's overthrow in May 1941.
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Rome-Berlin Axis, Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. It was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. The term Axis Powers came to include.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Noted Moseley, “Ciano played a central role in the Axis partnership negotiations with Hitler and [German Foreign Minister Joachim] von Ribbentrop and masterminded Italy’s invasions of Albania and Greece.”
In late 1942 and early 1943, following the Axis defeat in North Africa, other major setbacks on the Eastern Front, and with an Anglo-American assault on Sicily looming, Ciano turned against the doomed war and actively pushed for Italy's exit from the conflict.
Galeazzo Ciano, an Italian diplomat and politician, played a significant role in the formation of the Rome-Berlin Axis. Ciano was Mussolini's son-in-law and served as the Italian Foreign Minister from 1936 to 1943.
After several Axis defeats in 1942, Ciano became one of many Fascist proponents of a separate peace with the Allies. The suspicious Mussolini dismissed his entire Cabinet (Feb. 5, 1943), and Ciano was appointed ambassador to the Vatican.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ciano shifted with Axis fortunes. He backed the poorly planned invasion of Greece (October 1940). Then, after enforced air service in the disaster, he again plotted Mussolini's overthrow in May 1941.
Ciano became further disillusioned with the steady string of defeats suffered by the Italian armed forces from 1939 to 1943. By the time the Nazis had propped Mussolini up as the head of the Italian Socialist Republic, Ciano and his family had sought sanctuary in Germany.
