Word: weinribbentrop
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...Weinribbentrop...
...Nazi Foreign Minister, used to be a liquor salesman. I enclose for the delectation of your readers a letter he wrote in 1928 to a Jewish friend of mine about the purchase of some Pommery Champagne. On the letterhead von Ribbentrop's telegraphic address is given as "Weinribbentrop, Berlin" and the chief brands he represented were Pommery & Greno Champagne, Meukow Cognac, Johnnie Walker Whiskey and Grande Chartreuse Liqueur; note also that he refers to the firm of "Schoeneberg & Ribbentrop." Von Ribbentrop, the future Nazi, winds up his letter by asking to be remembered to the wife of his Jewish...
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