Dimensions
126 x 198 x 32mm
Joachim von Ribbentrop, a successful middle-class businessman with Jewish friends, joined the Nazis on the eve of their taking power. Although widely regarded as an incompetent buffoon, Ribbentrop was appointed Foreign Minister by Hitler in 1938, a post he held until the end of the Third Reich.
His earlier failure as Ambassador to London made him violently anti-British, and he encouraged Hitler in a policy which led to war with England. His grandiose attempts at alliance building produced a disastrous military coalition with Italy and Japan, and the infamous pact with the Soviet Union.
It was a career which would end on the gallows at Nuremberg, where he headed the death procession.
Michael Bloch's much acclaimed biography vividly portrays this bizarre and historically neglected figure.
