Word: ribbentrop
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...fought each other, as they did in both world wars, other nations suffered as a result, and when they were allied, during long periods of history, it was scarcely to the advantage of the rest of Europe. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...
...this century, Germany and the Soviet Union have come to diplomatic agreements. The first time was at the Rapallo Conference of 1922, at which the Weimar Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union reached a rapprochement. More significant, the infamous (and short-lived) secret pact engineered by Molotov and Ribbentrop in 1939 was called a "nonaggression pact," but its main consequence was to allow Germany to attack Poland, thus plunging the world into...
Under Suspicion. In 1940, as Germany underwent massive mobilization, Kiesinger received an order to report to Von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry for duty. His position was Hilfsarbeiter?auxiliary worker ?in the section that prepared propaganda broadcasts for beaming abroad. Within a year or so, he had been promoted to deputy of the section and given a responsibility for the stations that operated in the occupied areas. As such, he was sometimes briefed by officials from Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry on the Nazi line. Kiesinger began to choke on it. By 1944, two of his colleagues denounced...
...Party won eight seats in elections for the Hesse state legislature. Kiesinger faced the issue headon. He told a press conference that he had joined the party in 1933, but had become disillusioned the next year and remained inactive after that. He insisted that he was drafted into Von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry in 1940 and served only in a minor position in the section that beamed broadcasts abroad. To buttress his statement, he released a wartime document in which a Nazi informer had denounced him to the Gestapo for sup pressing anti-Jewish material on broad casts...
...leaders who actually stood trial, eleven were sentenced to hang, seven received prison sentences, three were acquitted. Condemned to death, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring committed suicide by poison in his prison cell. Ten Nazis-including Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Armed Forces Chief Wilhelm Keitel, and General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief military adviser-died on the gallows...