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Joachim von Ribbentrop hoped almost to the end "that he might be saved by dis sension between the Allies. It was the last of the many mistakes made by the worst foreign minister of modern times...
...Protested Adolf Hitler's onetime protégée, Nazi cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, when U.S. troops ejected her from Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's hill villa at Kitzbuhel, Austria: "Some of my best friends were Jews." With tears in her great brown eyes she complained of the disrespect of an unnamed Boston Irish doughboy. "Baby," he had said, "I've been going to the movies a long time and I never heard...
...Defense. According to G&246ring, only G&246ring made any sense in the Nazi hierarchy, and only he understood the Allies. Hitler was "narrow and ignorant." Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich's deposed Foreign Minister, was "a scoundrel." Rudolf Hess, a prisoner since he flew to Britain in 1941, was an unpredictable eccentric. After the attempt to kill Hitler last July, even Heinrich Himmler fell from grace. At the last, the man closest to the Führer was Martin Bormann...
...German people from destruction by the Bolsheviks.... As long as the British and Americans hamper us from reaching this end, we shall fight and defend ourselves." Doenitz moved to Denmark. He had dismissed from his rump Government (the personnel of which was not disclosed) Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As rump Foreign Minister he named mild-mannered, Oxford-educated Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, 58, Hitler's back-seat Minister of Finance, Krosigk echoed his Führer: peace for Germany but no surrender to the "Bolshevik terror...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop, the champagne salesman who became No. 1 Nazi diplomat...