Joachim von Ribbentrop

Joachim von Ribbentrop (born Joachim Ribbentrop) (April 30, 1893–October 16, 1946) was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials.

Endnotes

1 Synder, Louis Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976 page 295.

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2 Overy, Richard "Germany and the Munich Crisis: A Mutilated Victory?" pages 191-215 from The Munich Crisis, 1938 Prelude to World War II edited by Igor Lukes and Erik Goldstein, London: Frank Cass Inc, 1999 page 201.

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3 Ibid.

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4 Synder, Louis Encyclopedia of the Third Reich page 296.

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