“the Jews must either be exterminated or taken to the concentration camps. There is no other possibility”
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was a German politician, diplomat, and war criminal who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.
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politics · German politician and diplomat (1893–1946) · politician · diplomat · also Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim Ribbentrop, Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ribbentrop
Born 30 April 1893 · Died 16 October 1946 · Q101886
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2026· 6 entries
“could give us the peace we want”
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“the localisation of the conflict is certain”
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“s Press Office, Fritz Hesse, that the Munich Agreement was”
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“winning over all states whose interests conform directly or indirectly to ours.”
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2020· 1 entry
VOA rated the claim ““[I]t is unfair to claim that the two-day visit to Moscow of Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was the main reason for the start of the Second World War. All the leading countries are to a certain extent responsible for its outbreak.”” Misleading.
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1946· 2 entries
Died 1946-10-16.
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“I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.”
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1942· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1942).
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Ambassador Otto Abetz secured the deportation of 25,000 French Jews, and Ambassador Hanns Ludin secured the deportation of 50,000 Slovak Jews to the death camps
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-apostles (1940).
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1939· 8 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1939).
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Awarded Order of the Most Holy Annunciation (1939).
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“s letter was just a bluff and urged his master to call it. On the night of 30–31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop”
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“It is certain that within a few months not one Frenchman nor a single Englishman will go to war for Poland”
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With the country he wanted as his ally, the United Kingdom, and ally with the country he wanted as his enemy, the Soviet Union
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And had the effect of causing Turkey's politically powerful army to resist Ribbentrop's entreaties to join the Axis
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Was based upon creating a "peace front" of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a "tripwire" meant to deter any act of German aggression
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And in the diplomatic action surrounding the attack on Poland
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1938· 9 entries
Awarded Order of the German Eagle (1938).
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Hitler decided to destroy the rump state of Czecho-Slovakia, as Czechoslovakia had been renamed in October 1938, early in 1939
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And then demanding more than their fair share of the spoils
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Under Anglo-French pressure, depriving the Germans of their excuse for aggression
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Diplomats such as Weizsäcker were highly enthusiastic about the prospect of war with Poland in 1939
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Career landmark: German Foreign Minister (1938–1945).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (1938–1945).
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And in part by his realisation that Britain would neither ally itself nor stand aside in regard to Germany's ambition to dominate Europe
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“England is our most dangerous enemy”
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1937· 1 entry
Allying the United Kingdom with the Axis powers
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1936· 3 entries
Career landmark: ambassador of the German Reich (1936–1938).
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And then Foreign Minister of Germany in February 1938
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And 1938, holding this seat until the fall of the Nazi regime
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1935· 2 entries
Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Germany, complained to London about Ribbentrop's British associates in the Anglo-German Fellowship
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Ribbentrop arranged for a series of much-publicised visits of First World War veterans to Britain, France and Germany
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1934· 1 entry
Hitler named Ribbentrop Special Commissioner for Disarmament
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1928· 2 entries
Ribbentrop was introduced to Adolf Hitler as a businessman with foreign connections who "gets the same price for German champagne as others get for French champagne"
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Recorded that Ribbentrop had no political views beyond a vague admiration for Gustav Stresemann, fear of Communism, and a wish to restore the monarchy
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1925· 1 entry
His "aunt" Gertrud von Ribbentrop, adopted him, which allowed him to add the nobiliary particle von to his name
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1919· 2 entries
Would sooner have been in a position to do what she is doing today
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Ribbentrop met Anna Elisabeth Henkell, the daughter of a wealthy Wiesbaden wine producer
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1918· 1 entry
1st Lieutenant Ribbentrop was stationed in Istanbul as a staff officer
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1914· 3 entries
Competed for Ottawa's Minto ice-skating team and participated in the Ellis Memorial Trophy tournament in Boston in February
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The great catastrophe would have been avoided
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Ribbentrop left Canada, which, as part of the British Empire, was at war with Germany, and found temporary sanctuary in the neutral United States
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1908· 1 entry
For repeatedly disparaging Kaiser Wilhelm II for his dismissal of Otto von Bismarck and the Kaiser's alleged homosexuality
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-04-30.
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