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Joachim von Ribbentrop

German politician and diplomat (1893–1946)

"Ribbentrop" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Ribbentrop (surname).

Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop^[1] (German:[joˈʔaxɪmfɔnˈʁɪbəntʁɔp]; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.

Ribbentrop first came to Adolf Hitler's notice as a well-travelled businessman with more knowledge of the outside world than most senior Nazis and as a perceived authority on foreign affairs. He offered his house Schloss Fuschl for the secret meetings in January 1933 that resulted in Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. He became a close confidant of Hitler, to the dismay of some party members, who thought him unintelligent, superficial and lacking in talent. He was appointed ambassador to the Court of St James's, the royal court of the United Kingdom, in 1936 and then Foreign Minister of Germany in February 1938.

Before World War II, he played a key role in brok

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862.414/9–3047

Memorandum by the Director of the Office of Public Affairs (Russell)1

confidential

Washington, 9/30/47.

Subject: Publication of the German War Documents Relating to the 1939–1940 Discussions Between the Russians and the Germans, Particularly the Molotov-Ribbentrop Conversations

There are various possibilities with respect to what might be published at this time:2

a.

The report of November 1940 from the German Ambassador to Moscow of a conversation between him and Molotov, setting forth the conditions upon which Russia would adhere to the Three Power Pact. This document has, as far as we know, never been published or even referred to publicly. It is extremely damaging to the Russian position. It delineates the territories in Europe and the Near East that Russia insisted would have to come under Russian domination and provides for the definite alignment of Russia with Germany, Italy, and Japan.

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In addition to a., Nazi reports of a series of four conversations between Molotov, Ribbentrop, and Hitler in Berlin in November 1940. These have been referred to p

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Clouds of War in Europe

On March 15, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, breaking the agreement it had signed with Great Britain and France the year before in Munich, Germany. The invasion jolted British and French leaders and convinced them that Adolf Hitler, the German chancellor, could not be trusted to honor his agreements and was likely to keep committing aggressions until stopped by force or a massive deterrent.

Did you know? Hitler disliked the photograph taken when the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was signed in the Kremlin because it showed Stalin with a cigarette in his hand. Hitler felt the cigarette was unsuited to the historic occasion and had it airbrushed from the photo when it was published in Germany.

In the previous year, Hitler had annexed Austria and had taken the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia; in March 1939, his tanks rolled into the rest of Czechoslovakia. It appeared that he was determined to undo the international order set up by the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I.

The treaty, which required