Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and a prominent figure in the Italian government, was dispatched to the Wolf's Lair with a message from Mussolini urging Hitler to make a separate peace with the Soviet Union.
Ciano only rose to power via his marriage to Edda Mussolini, but starting in 1939 he began to pull away from the dictator over the war, which he opposed. He was sidelined by being appointed Ambassador to the Holy See in 1943. He voted with the Fascist Grand Council to remove Mussolini in July 1943, but was removed from his office by the government, after which he fled to Germany. The Germans in turn handed him over to Mussolini's rebel fascist Italian Social Republic, which would have him executed.
Ciano's diaries are an important source of inside information regarding the Italian fascist government as well as the Axis alliance.
The British prevailed at El Agheila.
