Word: ribbentrops
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...middle-aged American archaeologist, who has dug her, and causes him to abandon his shrill wife. Bertha von Paraboum, identified as Eine Deutsche Kreatur, wears high black boots, a flowing red boa, and a garter. As the loudspeakers blare the sort of martial music that would have stirred Von Ribbentrop, Bertha von Paraboum for the first time turns to face the audience fully, and there, serving as a G-string, is a swastika. Victoria Nankin is billed as "the Yé-Yé Widow." To show her grief, Bernardin has veiled her nude form with large black dots, achieved with...
Resounding Belle. She took the abuse with gallantry and grace. In fact, as she said, "I abhor Hitler and Hitlerism." On one occasion when Hitler's Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, greeted her with the Nazi salute, she snapped: "Stop that nonsense with me!" During World War II, she ran Cliveden as a 1,600-bed hospital for wounded Canadian soldiers, also assisted her husband in his duties as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, which was savagely bombed. "You can kill us," she challenged the Nazis, "but you can't scare...
...Appeasers is like a biography which discusses its subject as if he were the only man alive. The authors have a great time tracing the movements of the appeasers, but they don't pause to consider the medium through which their subjects move. Von Ribbentrop appears as a soft piece of putty shaped by English hands. One does not hear of his constant efforts to soothe Hitler, his competition with the German ambassador in Moscow, or his fear of admitting defeat in his own policies. All were important in determining the scene upon which Chamberlain played the fool...
...upbraided the German ambassador to Italy for hours on end. "The Germans seem to be [Ciano's] favorite target," an Italian official wrote. "He enjoys himself by talking of them in the worst possible way . . . Bum here, bum there; imbecile Germany here, cretinous Germans there; 'that delinquent Ribbentrop,' 'that criminal Hitler...
...revelations appeared in the latest batch of captured Nazi documents published jointly last week by the British, French and U.S. governments. Coburg's "Strictly Confidential" report was addressed "Only for the Führer and Party Member v. Ribbentrop (No Copy)," and said of Edward VIII that "for him a German-British alliance is an urgent necessity and a guiding principle of British foreign policy." Coburg eagerly suggested that discussions about future relations be held between Hitler and Britain's Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. The King, said Coburg, "replied in the following words: 'Who is King here...