Catalogue description CIANO PAPERS

The diplomatic papers of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister from 1936 to 1943, include the so-called 'Lisbon Papers', 'Rosegarden Papers' and his diaries and the papers of Graziani. These include memoranda of Ciano's conversations with foreign statesmen and diplomats, and a collection of letters and telegrams exchanged by Hitler and Mussolini (Hitler's letters in Italian translation, the original German texts being in Mussolini's papers).

There is considerable overlap between the Lisbon Papers and the Rosegarden Papers, but the collections are not identical. A further set of (slightly different) German translations were found at the German Reich Security Headquarters in 1946 (GFM 36/640-641)