I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them. - Joachim von Ribbentrop

About Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (April 30, 1893 – October 16, 1946) was a German politician 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 disgust of some party members, who thought him 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. Arrested in June 1945, Ribbentrop was convicted and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. On 16 October 1946, he became the first of the Nuremberg defendants to be executed by hanging.

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