Verona trials

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 700+ words | Copyright

Verona trials, special tribunal set up, at Hitler's insistence, in Mussolini's Italian Social Republic (see Italy, 3(b)) to try those who had forced the Duce's resignation by voting against him in the Fascist Grand Council in July 1943. The tribunal was established by a decree which Mussolini issued on 24 November 1943 and the trial of the nineteen accused was held from 8 to 10 January 1944. Only six appeared in court: Marshal Emilio De Bono, Count Ciano, Tullio Cianetti, Giovanni Marinelli, Luciano Gottardi, and Carlo Pareschi. The others were tried in absentia and all were sentenced to death. Of the six who appeared in court only Cianetti, the minister of corporations, was reprieved because the day after Mussolini had been defeated in the Grand Council, Cianetti had withdrawn his vote against him. Instead, he was given a sentence of 30 years' imprisonment.

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