Summary of Tilar J. Mazzeo's Sisters in Resistance

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#1 By summer 1943, it was clear that the war was not going the way Hitler had predicted. The Allied landings on Sicily brought the threat of invasion closer to home. Mussolini needed to persuade Hitler that his power was tenuous, so he could receive reinforcements.

#2 Mussolini’s call for a meeting of the Grand Council on July 24 to discuss the progress of the war was astonishing. He was supremely confident of his grip on power, and he knew that the Grand Council knew it. The Grand Council knew what had happened to Mussolini’s other opponents.

#3 The Grand Council meeting was held on July 24, 1943, a Saturday. Galeazzo Ciano was one of the 28 members of the Fascist party’s Grand Council. He had been a supporter of fascism for most of his life, but he had been purged from Mussolini’s inner cabinet in February for suggesting that Italy had made a mistake in joining the Nazi war effort.

#4 Dino Grandi, the Italian prime minister, called for a coup against Mussolini. He was met with hours of debate, but in the end, he stood firm and voted against his party leader.v

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350017229

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

By summer 1943, it was clear that the war was not going the way Hitler had predicted. The Allied landings on Sicily brought the threat of invasion closer to home. Mussolini needed to persuade Hitler that his power was tenuous, so he could receive reinforcements.

#2

Mussolini’s call for a meeting of the Grand Council on July 24 to discuss the progress of the war was astonishing. He was supremely confident of his grip on power, and he knew that the Grand Council knew it. The Grand Council knew what had happened to Mussolini’s other opponents.

#3

The Grand Council meeting was held on July 24, 1943, a Saturday. Galeazzo Ciano was one of the 28 members of the Fascist party’s Grand Council. He had been a supporter of fascism for most of his life, but he had been purged from Mussolini’s inner cabinet in February for suggesting that Italy had made a mistake in joining the Nazi war effort.

#4

Dino Grandi, the Italian prime minister, called for a coup against Mussolini. He was met with hours of debate, but in the end, he stood firm and voted against his party leader.

#5

Mussolini was removed from power by the Grand Council, but he refused to accept the vote and declared that black was white and white was black. The Allies bombed targets in central Livorno from the air that morning, and Edda and the children may have been huddled in the air-raid shelter when the call came.

#6

On July 25, the Grand Council voted against Mussolini. Edda was worried and anxious to hear the outcome, so she called Galeazzo. He predicted that his father-in-law would be furious, but he was not worried. He hoped to be named as his successor.

#7

When the vote against Mussolini took place at Grand Council, Pietro Badoglio was chosen as his replacement. Badoglio was a dedicated fascist, but he was also a military hard-liner. He relished the delicious irony