Ribbentrop

Bloch, p. 397 Another low point in Ribbentrop's relations with the SS occurred in February 1943, when the SD backed a Luther-led internal putsch to oust Ribbentrop as foreign minister.

Bloch, pp. 365–367 Luther had become estranged from Ribbentrop because Frau Ribbentrop treated Luther as a household servant.

Hildebrand, p. 40 But there was a difference of opinion between Ribbentrop and Hitler: Ribbentrop sincerely wished to recover the former German colonies, whereas for Hitler, colonial demands were just a negotiating tactic.

Hildebrand, p. 48 Hitler turned down this idea of Ribbentrop's, but nonetheless during his meeting with Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop spent much of the meeting demanding that Britain sign an alliance with Germany and return the former German colonies.

One German diplomat, Herbert Richter, called Ribbentrop "lazy and worthless", while another, Manfred von Schröder, was quoted as saying Ribbentrop was "vain and ambitious".

Pp. 53, 61. After the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed, in 1940 when Molotov arrived in Berlin on a diplomatic visit during which Ribbentrop stated that Germany was directing its lebensraum southward.

Watt, p. 281 Instead of focusing on talking to the Turks, Ribbentrop and Papen became entangled in a feud over Papen's demand that he by-pass Ribbentrop and send his dispatches straight to Hitler.

Weitz, p. 239 Much to Ribbentrop's fury, someone leaked the plans for the German invasion to the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, which led Ribbentrop to devote the next several months to conducting an unsuccessful investigation into who leaked the news.

Before Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union two years later, he and Stalin agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact of 1939 to divide central and eastern Europe into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence.

International Military Tribunal convicted 19 of the top surviving Nazi officials, with Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, and Joachim von Ribbentrop among the 12 sentenced to death.

To this end, Stalin had directed his powerful German Communist Party to take political actions ensuring that Hitler came to power and then later lured the German dictator into signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to divide Poland.

The controversy was all over the global media in the days leading up to Christmas and one newspaper carried a photo of Germany’s foreign minister Ribbentrop and his Russian counterpart, Molotov, shaking hands after the signing.

According to Penkower (p.153), Radu Lecca changed orders for the deportation into occupied Poland immediately after being "snubbed" by Joachim von Ribbentrop 's employees.

According to the judgment, Ribbentrop was actively involved in planning the invasions of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

After signing the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, Ribbentrop expanded on this idea for an Axis alliance to include the Soviet Union to form a Eurasian bloc that would destroy maritime states such as Britain.

After the war, Ribbentrop was found to have had culpability in the Holocaust based on his efforts to persuade the leaders of satellite countries of the Third Reich to deport Jews to the Nazi extermination camps.

Ambassador-plenipotentiary at large Hitler rewarded Ribbentrop by appointing him Reich Minister Ambassador-Plenipotentiary at Large.

An appointment was made for 4 am Von Ribbentrop is nervous, walking up and down from one end of his large office to the other, like a caged animal, while saying over and over, "The Führer is absolutely right.

And Ribbentrop was blowing up the whole day and I had to do nothing.

As part of his efforts to bring Japan into Barbarossa, on 1 July 1941, Ribbentrop had Germany break off diplomatic relations with Chiang Kai-shek and recognized the Japanese-puppet government of Wang Jingwei as China's legitimate rulers.