Mussolini Betrayed by His Own Party - July 25, 1943

On July 25, 1943, the men who built Mussolini's dictatorship voted to end it, then spent the next six months revealing exactly what that vote had and hadn't been about. This episode traces the coup inside Italy's Fascist Grand Council, the king who waited two decades to act, and the son-in-law executed for the same vote that removed his father-in-law from power, tracking how the line between principle and self-preservation rarely resolves as cleanly as it's remembered.