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...With 600,000 Nazi troops across the northern border in Rumania, Bulgaria was hardly in position to say NO. But there were the usual diplomatic mummeries until Premier Filoff flew to Vienna, entered the florid Belvedere Palace, and took the pen offered him by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop under the eyes of Adolf Hitler himself. Then the Bulgarian Government's explanation-"the pressure of events"-seemed positively eloquent...
...Nazi leadership and named the order in which he would erase them. Said the onetime appeasement-minded former Ambassador to Germany, who was in at the death of Czecho-Slovakia: "If I were given a gun and told to take two shots, I would shoot Himmler [Gestapo Chief], then Ribbentrop [Foreign Minister], and brain Hitler with the butt of the rifle...
...meeting with Benito Mussolini. Berlin officials were more than usually reticent about where the meeting took place and what was discussed, saying only that "full agreement" was reached on Axis war plans. With Adolf Hitler and his Axis partner were high military officers and their Foreign Ministers, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano...
Born. To Frau Joachim von Ribbentrop, wife of Nazi Germany's onetime champagne salesman Foreign Minister: a son, their fifth child; in Berlin. Other Ribben-tropchens: Rudolf, 19, Bettina, 18, Ursula, 8, Barthold...
That evening old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain held a Cabinet meeting to consider the arrangements Pierre Laval had made. Laval appeared tired and anxious. Everything had been prepared, he explained. Hitler and Ribbentrop would be present at the ceremony in Les Invalides. Marshal Petain, as Chief of State, would also attend, as of course would he, Laval, as Foreign Minister. There would be a French guard of honor, as well as a German one. The ceremony would seal the rapprochement between France and Germany...