Word: ribbentrops
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...rowdies, the Storm Troopers, the policemen among them could easily see a connection between themselves and the charges against them. But Alfred Rosenberg could protest that he was just a quiet philosopher, and Julius Streicher a plain newspaper editor, and Joachim von Ribbentrop a diplomat who served his country...
Snapped Lady Astor: "Ribbentrop has never been to Cliveden and he came only once to St. James [the Astors' London house]. Then he gave me the Nazi Heil-Hitler salute and I said 'Stop that nonsense with...
...moods of his fellow defendants were varied. Most were nervous, winced even at the mention of their names. Ex-Foreign Minister Ribbentrop looked broken and old, with a hurt, petulant look on his frozen face. Ex-Ambassador Franz von Papen spoke to no one, listened impassively (but he had Mass said for him before he came to court in the morning). Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel (who was in good health: Allied physicians had successfully doctored his flat feet...
Lady Nancy Astor sputtered with indignation. Since 1938 she has been denying charges that the group of influential Britons who once gathered at her husband's old estate, Cliveden, were pro-Nazi. And now the story was up again, with Joachim von Ribbentrop's request that members of the Cliveden Set be called as witnesses in his defense...
...Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop: "I would like to think this over before saying anything...