On this day in history – 1943

 

Ciano in his glory days with von Ribbentrop, Hitler & Goring

7^th January – the abortive attempt, by Edda Mussolini Ciano, Hildegarde (Felicitas) Beetz & Emilio Pucci, to rescue Galeazzo Ciano from imprisonment in Verona prison fails. Hitler has refused to accept the plan put forward by Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler & Obergruppenfuhrer Kaltenbrunner to swap Ciano for his highly incriminating diaries.