VERONA EXECUTIONS
NAZI DISCIPLINARY ACT
LONDON, January 12. Mussolini did not participate in the trial of Count Ciano and the other former Fascist Party leaders, neither did he submit a statement to the tribunal, says the "Daily Telegraph's" Zurich correspondent, quoting reports from Italy. A firing party of 20 Black Shirt volunteers shot the condemned men, all of whom were accorded the privilege of not being shot in the back. They refused to have their eyes bound. After the last volley was fired the major in command lifted Ciano's body and said: "Justice has been done. Long live the Duce!" Ciano's remains * will be placed in the family vault at Leghorn. The correspondent adds: "The order for the execution is believed to have come direct from Hitler. The true reason why the death penalty was enforced can be found in the Reich's internal conditions. It was desired to cool the ardour of anti-Nazi military cliques which might be contemplating a coup d'etat such as led to the overthrow of Mussolini."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 11, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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