Hermanas de la Resistencia / Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis [Spanish]

LOS DIARIOS DE UN FASCISTA Y ARIST?CRATA ITALIANO Y LA ODISEA DE TRES MUJERES PARA SALVARLOS DE LA GESTAPO.

En 1944 se hicieron p?blicos los diarios secretos de Galeazzo Ciano, ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Italia, en los que registraba los cr?menes y planes nazis de los que se enteraba en sus reuniones con ellos. Pero poco se sabe que tres mujeres arriesgaron sus vidas para que estos llegaran a los Aliados, quienes luego los usar?an como evidencia contra los nazis en los juicios de N?remberg. Cuando Galeazzo fue apresado, Edda Mussolini les dio a Hitler y a su padre un ultim?tum: liberar a su esposo o correr el riesgo de que filtrara los diarios a la prensa.

Hitler y Mussolini los buscaron en vano durante meses. Posteriormente, Hilde Beetz, esp?a alemana cuya misi?n era seducir a Galeazzo para encontrar sus escritos, fue a su vez seducida por aquel y uni? fuerzas con Edda. Una tercera mujer se sum? a este incre?ble entramado --Frances de Chollet, esp?a casi accidental y esposa de un banquero estadounidense-- cuando Edda huy? a Suiza con la ayuda de Hilde, despu?s de que Galeazzo fuera ejecutado. Frances fue el ?ltimo eslab?n para hacer llegar los diarios a los estadounidenses y cumplir as? el deseo de Galeazzo.

A partir de una minuciosa investigaci?n, Tilar J. Mazzeo nos muestra este momento hist?rico poco conocido, para hacernos ver que sin la participaci?n de Edda, Hilde y Frances, uno de los documentos m?s importantes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que fue fundamental en los juicios de N?remberg ser?a, quiz?, desconocido.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: "A tantalizingly novelistic history lesson" (Kirkus).

In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women--a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American banker's wife--risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allies, who would later use them as evidence against the Nazis at Nuremberg.

In 1944, Benito Mussolini's daughter, Edda, gave Hitler and her father an ultimatum: release her husband, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband's journals to the press. To avoid the peril of exposing Nazi lies, Hitler and Mussolini hunted for the diaries for months, determined to destroy them.

Hilde Beetz, a German spy, was deployed to seduce Ciano to learn the diaries' location and take them from Edda. As the seducer became the seduced, Hilde converted as a double agent, joining forces with Edda to save Ciano from execution. When this failed, Edda fled to Switzerland with Hilde's daring assistance to keep Ciano's final wish: to see the diaries published for use by the Allies. When American spymaster Allen Dulles learned of Edda's escape, he sent in Frances De Chollet, an "accidental" spy, telling her to find Edda, gain her trust, and, crucially, hand the diaries over to the Americans. Together, they succeeded in preserving one of the most important documents of WWII.

Drawing from in-depth research and first-person interviews with people who witnessed these events, Mazzeo gives readers a riveting look into this little-known moment in history and shows how, without Edda, Hilde, and Frances's involvement, certain convictions at Nuremberg would never have been possible.