- Born
- Died
- Birth nameUlrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim Ribbentrop
- Height1.78 m
- Joachim von Ribbentrop was born on April 30, 1893 in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was married to Anna Elisabeth Henkell. He died on October 16, 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany.
- SpouseAnna Elisabeth Henkell(July 5, 1920 - October 16, 1946) (his death, 5 children)
- ParentsRichard Ulrich Friedrich Joachim RibbentropJohanne Sophie Hertwig
- Strongly opposed Adolf Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941.
- German Foreign Minister during the Nazi regime. His secretary was Reinhard Spitzy.
- Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1936-38).
- One of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials conducted after World War II. Charged with crimes against humanity, he was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out in 1946.
- Nazi German Foreign Minister (1938-45).
- The entry of the United States into the war is of no consequence at all for Germany. Germany and Italy will never again allow an Anglo-Saxon to land on the European Continent ... This is no military problem at all ... The Axis Powers are, therefore, not considering how they can win the war, but rather how rapidly they can end the war which is already won. (November 1940)
- England is beaten and it is only a question of time when she will admit her defeat ... The beginning of the end has now arrived for the British Empire. (November 1940)
- [in November 1940] The entry of the United States into the war is of no consequence at all for Germany. Germany and Italy will never again allow an Anglo-Saxon to land on the European Continent . . . This is no military problem at all . . . The Axis Powers are, therefore, not considering how they can win the war, but rather how rapidly they can end the war which is already won.
- [November 1940] England is beaten and it is only a question of time when she will admit her defeat . . . The beginning of the end has now arrived for the British Empire.
- The Italians will never get anywhere against the Greeks in the autumn rain and winter snows. The Führer intends at all costs to hold up this crazy scheme of the Duce's.
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