By July 1943, it was obvious that Italy was facing imminent defeat by the Allies in World War II. In an attempt to mitigate the inevitable devastation and destruction, the Fascist Grand Council passed a vote of no confidence against Mussolini, removing him from government. Mussolini's foreign minister and son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, was one of those who voted against him. With the help of the Germans, Ciano and the other ‘traitors' of the Grand Council were arrested and sentenced to death in Verona, then part of the Republic of Salò, Mussolini's new puppet state in Northern Italy.
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