Ribbentrop - Hitler's Foreign Minister Documentary

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[@fritzs1207]

Ribbentrop was right in drawing a real picture for the Fuhrer , he told the Fuhrer finish Britain first . A British guarantee to Poland in-case German invasion BUT not British guarantee to Poland against Russia, the Fuhrer should've seen that ! say what ever you want about Ribbentrop but his way was the right way

[@chronicmilitarycollector9232]

Nice video! In Otto Dietrich's book "The Hitler I Knew," Ribbentrop was given an ornate box as a gift for his birthday. At the party, which Hitler was attending, someone (I can't remember who now, maybe Goering?) stated something along the lines of "that box will make nice storage for all the treaties we will break." Dietrich stated it was the only time that he saw Hitler laugh uncontrollably. eluding to how he saw Ribbentrop's role. Please consider doing a video on Alfred Rosenberg. Very little is ever mentioned about him and I feel most people really don't know his roles in the 3rd Reich.

[@chronicmilitarycollector9232]

@@matthewwhitton5720 I wouldn't give such a harsh review of Rosenberg as a whole in his role in the 3rd Reich. While it is true Hitler did state that "Myth of the 20th Century" was largely unreadable and did not actually read the book, Rosenberg was the editor of the "Völkischer Beobachter." For those unaware, this was the main newspaper of the 3rd Reich, much like "Pravda" of the Soviet Union. While many did not read his most "popular" book, all of Germany read his newspaper daily. Hitler I think largely viewed Rosenberg's more in depth writings as something necessary for posterity, to have their own philosophic writings, maybe even one day to foster a new religion long after a victory. Hitler being the practical man he was, however, I don't think such things interested him much. It is odd that Rosenberg was head of the RMBO, considering he was in favor of making Ukraine an independent Nationalist state and largely saw Slavs as Aryan, where Hitler had the complete opposite view. I've read most of Rosenberg's writings, and I have to agree with Hitler, that they are painful to get through. I think Rosenberg was maybe writing for intellectuals well versed in the subjects he writes about, not to the laymen.

[@seidring9856]

Commovente. Poi giustiziato, impiccato collo rotto, kraut kaputt

[@raginald7mars408]

it was even Worse. " I will brew them a Devil´s Drink" - was his favourite Mantra. He drank it himself - and then we all...

[@robinhood4911]

Otto Dietrich's book "The Hitler I Knew," in my opinion is worthless as a source of information. The book was written at the behest of the winners and, in my opinion, is full of lies. If you read his pre-war 1934 book "With Hitler on the Road to Power" it is very interesting.

[@robinhood4911]

@@matthewwhitton5720 You wrote: Hitler himself was said to have (quite ironically) declared Rosenberg's tome, 'The Myth of the Twentieth Century', as wholly unreadable. I wouldn't be so sure about it, this is a post-war opinion, probably dictated by the winners. Also, saying that he has not read this book is in my opinion funny. Hitler read an awful lot and had a memory like a computer. There's even a book called "Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life" by Timothy W. Ryback

[@antaibhshaglas3737]

Enjoyed the documentry.Hard to come across a good documentary on Ribbentropp

[@Tomatohater64]

Thank you for this superb presentation on Joachim Von Ribbentrop. Of all the higher level Nazis, I always found him to be the most interesting and pathetic at the same time. Other Nazi officials referred to him as "Champagne Boy." Ultimately he got what he had coming. Again, many thanks.

[@NJC5628]

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[@SlinkyBack]

Quite possibly the lover of Mrs Wallis Simpson, the wife of Edward the Vlll ... Lately the Duke and Duchess of Windsor ... Both were considered a threat to Britain as they both had Nazi leanings.

[@Tomatohater64]

@@SlinkyBack That would fall in line with his personality, morals, and ethics - or lack thereof.

[@Eyewonder3210]

One book I read on the last days of the war said he corrected the teasing by Goring and others who refused to use VON and simply said Ribbentrop. "It's VON Ribbentrop!!" Which they laughed at.

[@Tomatohater64]

@@Eyewonder3210 Titanically insufferable were the words Hitler himself used to describe him.

[@noahhess4955]

This channel is amazing, I just found it today and I’m obsessed! I can’t believe it doesn’t have 5x more subscribers than it does now; the content is pure gold!

[@kylemendoza8860]

Hiller didn't scrap the agreement. Stalin who broke the agreement by innovating Bukovina in 1940.

[@lesliereissner4711]

Until I read a piece in the Ottawa Citizen in 2018 I had been unaware that RIbbentrop (before acquiring the "von") had cut a rather dashing figure in Canada's capital for several years. It is interesting that in later life so many would find him so repellant. And that even as the war was being lost he pressured countries allied to or under German occupation to deport their Jewish citizens to certain death is indicative of his true nature.

[@PoppysGuitar]

He was against the invasion of the Soviet Union. That alone made him a defeatist in the eyes of Hitler. Thus he was finished as a rising star in the Nazi regime. As a leading nazi figure, it didn't matter whether he knew or didn't know about the death camps. As Speer said at Nuremburg, there was a collective guilt for all the Nazi leaders and all would have to pay. Speer by some quirk of fate was spared but he certainly knew that his war industry was working captive people to death in his factories.

[@kryts27]

Von Ribbentrop was a social climber and oppertunist. It was these combinations or flaws in his character, plus his political naivety and slavish devotion to Hitler, that propelled him down the path of chief Nazi diplomat (and internal enemy of the wily Admiral Canaris of the republican spy agency, the Abwehr, that Ribbentrop constantly fought for control over). Ribbentrop had a choice to stay out of politics and comfortably remain in his wife's business of selling wine, but his amibition drove him into dark places, that he did not have the wisdom or intelligence to back out of (in the early phases). Although, Albert Speer was as politically implicated in his actions as armament minister as Ribbentrop by using slave labour from concentration camps and working them to death, Speer later escaped the hangman's noose by his much better crafted line of defence than Rippentrop. In my opinion, in his capacity as armaments minister using forced labour under dellberate appalling conditions (that Speer would have known about) and his closeness to Hitler, Speer deserved to be hanged as much as Ribbentrop was for his nefarious actions, but justice does not always get her man.

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

I haven't watched this video yet but I read a very interesting book about Fritz Kolbe, a man who worked in Germany's Foreign Office before Hitler came to power and all through WWII. When Hitler and the Nazis took power in Germany, Kolbe took an instant dislike to them that only every grew more intense as time went on. He turned out to be one of the most important spies in WWII. He sure had some words for Ribbentrop, none of them good. The two things I really remember from the book: 1) Ribbentrop insisted on being called "Herr von Ribbentrop" and woe to the employee who left off the "von". He was known to make an employee stand at attention while he screamed at them for several minutes. A low-level employee was likely to be fired on the spot, an employee of higher standing would keep his/her job but be docked in pay, would find themselves being assigned menial jobs in addition to their regular duties, and was sure to never get a good formal evaluation ever again. 2) The running joke in the Foreign Office was that Hitler was the only one in the Reich who didn't know that Ribbentrop was a rambling idiot because, in meetings, Hitler always did all the talking.

[@geraldvaughan5103]

Very well expressed - my thoughts all in one but you've left me nothing to write now, but you've probably expressed it better than I might have.

[@CherylSimser]

I agree fully. Speer certainly deserved the same fate as Ribbentrop, perhaps even more so. It still baffles me to this day that that did not occur.

[@ScottPalmer-mp1we]

@@Skank_and_Gutterboy I haven't finished William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" yet, but he calls Ribbentrop "dull-witted" . He also stated, concerning Ribbentrop that he was, "incompetent, vain as a peacock, arrogant, and without humor." Ribbentrop was the worst possible choice for such a post . . ."

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

@@ScottPalmer-mp1we Yes. I've never seen a good review of him. Pretty much anybody that dealt with him had some level of dislike of the "man".

[@BenjiMordino]

It's wild to think how many Ribbentrops we don't know about from the ancient world. Some fascinating people have no history recorded.

[@beachcomberbloke462]

Mind totally blown by the fact he had an ambition to be Lord of Cornwall!!

[@sharongudkovs3312]

Yes Blew My Mind To. Thought it a bit funny myself as I got a good laugh out of it. 😃😅

[@alexanderlee5669]

Bizzare. On an unrelated note I used to work for a holiday cottage company. Today Germans love Cornwall for some reason. Apparently there is some TV show set in Cornwall they love.

[@MrVorpalsword]

why, its a pretty easy job? - King Charles III made a decent fist of it.

[@maryt7959]

Channel like this one and your extraordinary work … it’s what everyone needs to listen too … learning history and what people do it’s extremely important ! Thank you .

[@sweetpeachbellini8245]

I've been binging your content the past few days and must say that all of the videos are so well-researched that they should be recommended by History/Political Science teachers to their students to write essays. Personally, I've always wondered what became of the children of the high-ranking Nazis. So I checked Google and was surprised to see that Von Ribbentrop's son Rudolf (the only one I could find any info on because of his military status during the war,) had only just passed on in May of 2019. In any case, your biographies are always fascinating no matter what.

[@TJ-hs1qm]

Research the families that funded the Nazis... very interesting

[@annaczapla4366]

Gerald Posner's in his book "Hitler's children" interviewed sons & daughters of Nazis like Niklas Frank, the only Nazi offspring who condemned his father Hans Frank appointed Governor General of occupied Poland.Rolf Mengele who In 1986 "Today" show was interviewed by host Phil Donahue as son of Joseph Mengele called "Angel of Death" who experimented on Auschwitz camp inmates and who escaped to Argentina after war. He remained in hideout for over 30 years thanks to Rolf's silence. Daughters of Göring & Himmler, Edda and Gudrum stayed devoted to their criminals fathers refusing to acknowledged their crimes. Most of the Nazi offsprings live in USA.

[@eleanorkett1129]

My answer to the question is both. He was a sycophant of Hitler and, as such, was very much complicit in the crimes of the regime. In order to gain favor he was willing to involve himself in murder. He might not have been too bright, but stupidity is not a good defense. Very fine presentation.

[@Libertyjack1]

Correction about Canada being part of the British Commonwealth. That is its status following the Statute of Westminster, in the '30s, which made all self-governing countries of the British rhelm, functionally independent. During WW1, it was a member of the British Empire. The difference is that Canada's entry in WW2 required a vote of the Canadian Parliament, where by comparison, Canada was de-facto at war, when Britain entered WW1.

[@reddeercanoe]

This is correct, Canada is the only nation in the Western Hemisphere not to gain its independence by revolution against it’s mother country but by defence of that country. The first international treaty signed by Canada was the treaty of Versailles. Canada lost 65,000 died in Ww1.

[@cabba4585]

It's still part of the Commonwealth though. Though Canada is an independent country, Britain's Queen Elizabeth remains the nation's head of state. The Queen does not play an active role in Canadian politics, and her powers are mostly symbolic.

[@Libertyjack1]

@@cabba4585 My point is that at the time Ribbentrop lived in Canada, the Commonwealth didn't even exist. The Commonwealth is an organization of nations that were former colonies of Great Britain (an entity that no longer exists, under that title). Countries don't even need to have the Queen as their Head of State. Canada's pretty much constitutionally stuck with the Crown, however, as part of a wheeler-deal some provincial leaders made with Trudeau Sr, to patriate the Constitution. Among them was the staunch monarchist, New Brunswick's Richard 'Disco Dick' Hatfield, whose high British virtue extended to having a stream of quasi-adult male friend visiting his residents for...tea.

[@cabba4585]

@@Libertyjack1 I see, the first line of your original post seemed to suggest it wasn't

[@RoyKoopaling]

@@Libertyjack1 Why would you not want to have the monarchy? Totally symbolic and ensures you maintain a strong relationship with the UK.

[@robinhood4670]

Ribbon drop had the right idea with a p a c t with Soviet union. It worked beautifully and it knocked Britain and France on their backs. Maybe if he had just once told Hitler no I think it's a better idea to conquer Britain or just leave well enough alone for a couple years and soak up the riches that they'd already conquered, Germany may have been Victorious overall. But he would have had to stand up to Hitler and apparently he wasn't able to do that.

[@TheAslan1975]

I think that the USA was the only country that Hitler officially declared war on. In a book on Ribbentrop by Michael Bloch, it was stated that he converted to Lutherism during his confinement at Nuremberg. Bloch also states that his hanging was not very efficient and took 10-15 minutes to end.

[@brega6286]

Somebody goofed in the length of the rope...or not.

[@Lowbro1351]

Been looking forward to this one. Such a fascinating character during WW2.

[@seidring9856]

Affascinante? Rivoltante ditei. Scusi lei esalta i carnefici?

[@frankpienkosky5688]

have to wonder how he would have done on the russian front....

[@Kyanzes]

This guy did not deserve to be hanged. They only removed him to keep him from talking. Obviously, he knew a lot of unsavory things about the UK/Soviet Union.

[@johnimsdahl9670]

Well done. I had the recent pleasure of visiting Nuremberg and float along the Danube River. Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria have such a vast history that few North Americans know about, or were taught. Changing names, borders, effects of occupations, loss of monarchies and changing governments had such a widespread influence upon their citizens. Nevertheless they are some of the most wonderful, delightful, and engaging people who are prepared to share their history with us, the unknowing. While there are shameful and horrible events in their history, so too are there shameful and horrible events in our USA history and as humans we can recognize these shortcomings.

[@jasminespencer3992]

I did the Danube cruise as well, simply wonderful

[@bavros1998]

Very well spoken. Great comment.

[@johnmorrison9758]

No other place in the world shares the incredibly horrible history that Europe does. A so called cradle of civilization that has seen non stop wars, including two world wars that killed tens of millions, not to mention the dictatorships and kings of old that slaughtered even more millions. You cannot compare anything in North America with any of that.

[@The123rasputin]

Great video generally in terms of telling the story of the man. But why do people say he was dim-witted when, from a Nazi perspective, he had the best strategy: defeat Britain and stay allied to Russia.

[@jantomasjuza7907]

Great documentary (as many others at the People Profiles). It seems that many atrocities have been made possible by people who just did or said nothing against them. As much as I can understand that everybody can't be a hero who would rather be killed then tolerate any violence against innocent people, I think that "yes"-men and opportunists like Ribbentrop have no excuse whatsoever.

[@strikerorwell9232]

People didnt stand up against Hitler and Stalin. But now when the Globalists are on the march with the World Economic Forums Führer- Klaus "You will own nothing and be happy" Schwab, people worldwide must stand up against the Fascist Globalist state, they are pushing for!

[@JohnSmith-rw2yn]

Oh I dunno. this guy seems to have tried to please and even the nazi were like, oh god this guy again. Government didn't want him, Nazi leaders didn't want him, own department bemoaned him. Bit of a useless guy really lol

[@josesiliezar1758]

"Even with all I know, if in this cell Hitler should come to me and say 'do this!', I would still do it." --Joachim von Ribbentrop

[@harrietharlow9929]

now THAT is fanaticism!

[@josesiliezar1758]

@@harrietharlow9929 Yes, it is.

[@AirForceFalcons_9922]

No different than Trump loyalist. Treason, insurgency, attempted coup, ...Yeah, they would still do what Trump tells them to. In America's case, no one in Trump's SS Squad is getting punished or having to answer for the crimes and other criminal activities they plotted, damn near carried out and is plotting for the next mid-term and presidential elections.

[@die1mayer]

@@harrietharlow9929 loyalty...

[@robinhood4911]

@@harrietharlow9929 You do not understand what he said. To understand this first you have to understand who Hitler was and what he wanted. Start your education (and forget everything earlier in your head) from these items: "The Myth of German Villainy" by Benton L. Bradberry "Hitler's Revolution: ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs" by Tedor Richard "Les Responsables de la Deuxième Guerre Mondial" Paul Rassinier "Germany`s war" by John Wear "Hitler Democrat" by Leon Degrell "Hitler's Table Talk: 1941-1944" by Hugh Roper

[@dreamcast3607]

I would like to ask a question. If you say Germany's former colonies in Africa were unimportant to Hitler, why did he not agree to let them go to Franco as part of the agreement to declare war on the allies?

[@realniggashit3]

@@balabanasireti Franco was smart. He was playing both sides.

[@bobbyantrobus1805]

The GOAT historical biography channel currently

[@benjaminrees6665]

Agreed! The best Simon Whistler has carved out a decent biography channel. But no where near these guys

[@benjaminrees6665]

@Big Bazza no. He said what he meant and I agree. There are many very in depth history channels on KZbin

[@benjaminrees6665]

@Big Bazza biographics doesn't hold a candle to the people's profiles. It's more of a familiarization than a biography

[@anthonywalsh785]

excellent and very informative video. i wish though you had mentioned the horrific debacle of ribbentrop's execution.

[@dreamingflurry2729]

Nobility is not "upper middle class" - Seriously, no way! That is solidly upper class!

[@dry5555]

Before watching this video I thought Ribbentrop was more intelligent than he actually was. More of a mediocre yes man.

[@dk560]

Not only are the Brits masters of secret operations, they also excel in documentaries.

[@matthewmayer6554]

Europe looks beautiful. I would love to see Germany

[@geraldvaughan5103]

Indeed, I find these documentaries very clear and comprehensive. I like to interpret History as Human behavioural studies as all that really divides us is the circumstances in which we find ourselves. France created circumstances for the German people in 1918 which could only be a most fertile ground for revolt. But we never seen to learn. When America under Ground W Bush entered into Irac he left behind the perfect incubation for all what was to follow. What do unemployed military forces do only to go underground for a bit and emerge a lethal force. Thus the creation of Isis and all what followed. Remember the human being is the most dangerous animal in the planet and e must organise society in such a way as to make easy the suppression of our darker selves. I see the atrocities of the Natzi as a reflection of myself in similar circumstances. In other words, we are all capable of despicable acts of unfortunate enough to find ourselves surrounded by a catalyst of circumstances to trigger it. World War Two is a fascinating insight into human behaviour. Germany 1930's, a find race of modern sophisticated people, highly industrialised and enjoying a standard of living second to none at the time. Yet, it stooped to genocide in an industrialised way. We have seen genocide before but in very primitive societies. What makes this different is that in a perfectly modernized society it could be carried out in an industrialised manner. Complacency would be our worst

[@christopher5361]

…and comedies. And classic rock

[@anthonygreen2100]

And music. And pageantry. And pomp and circumstance.

[@dk560]

@@anthonygreen2100 I have to admit my favorite groups are British.

[@limehousechappy7400]

Read the book "How we squandered the Reich" by Reinhard Spitzy, who was Secretary of the German Ambassador in London. Then you will know, what a tragic miscast Ribbentrop was.

[@richardshiggins704]

Excellent documentary and narration .

[@BELCAN57]

Please consider an episode on Kaiser Friedrich (Wilhelm's Father). Under his rule The Great War might have been avoided.

[@marianneisaacs8232]

Yes another casualty of tobacco. He died of throat cancer

[@Mamaki1987]

Great docomentary. Hitler broke the agreement with Stalin yes. But even if he had decided not to attack Russia, who knows if Stalin wouldn't have attacked Hitler instead at some point. And if so, at what point in history. They didn't see eye to eye after all when it comes down to it. No matter what, the war was lost for Germany from the getgo.

[@marennicholson5444]

I read once that Stalin was sure Hitler would eventually invade but not until after he managed to take over in the west and by then Russia would be read and Stalin would then absorb German controlled territories. What he didn’t count on was Hitler’s “dreamer” like personally being dominate over his practicality to wage a war on both fronts and ignored every warning that he was about to do just that. So when Hitler did invade Stalin had a boarder line nervous breakdown.

[@Mamaki1987]

@@marennicholson5444 Yes, that is what I was taught as well

[@robinhood4911]

@@balabanasireti Contrary to what is said, I do not think Hitler wanted hegemony over Europe, it was superfluous. He would conquer the whole world economically and those "conquered" would also benefit from it.

[@robinhood4911]

You wrote: "Hitler broke the agreement with Stalin" .. In fact, it was Stalin who broke the treaty. The entire Soviet army stood at the border ready to attack (including airports close to the border). For those interested, I recommend looking for Hitler's speech on the beginning of the war with the USSR, the book "Icebreaker Who Started the Second World War?" by Viktor Suvorov (once was on YT), and a video on YT (if censorship didn't cancel it) "The March of the Liberators".

[@realniggashit3]

Sure, they were always destined to fight, but if Hitler had taken Ribbentrop's advice and focused on destroying the British Empire first rather than fight 2 fronts at once, the Americans might eventually decide that Germany was the lesser of two evils and help Germany destroy the Soviet Union. At the very least, Germany wouldn't need to fight 2 fronts at once and Americans would've been bogged down for years in the Pacific fighting the Japanese anyway. Heck, there were right-wing anti-communist elements within the US such as General Patton and MacArthur, who were itching for war against the Soviet Union, and old right isolationists like Robert Taft who didn't want to get involved in Europe at all.

[@jamescarel5520]

This contrasts very much with American styles presentations which are Hollywoodian at best and usually paint the perfect vilain or hero out of the individuals.

[@bernhardwall6876]

I never knew that Ireland had stayed out of the war.

[@markmeyer4664]

I love History

[@shutup2751]

at the time of the pact with the soviet union he could be considered the de facto deputy leader of germany though as the war progressed he was basically relegated to a not so useful yes man

[@jackcade68]

First off, ty for this episode. Very well done sir! This is a fascinating tale, the foreign minister! Who do you select as a foreign minister in 1938 after the die had been cast? A pysedo-intelluctual with nobility aspirations.

[@charlesmartella]

Herman Goering is my favourite.

[@gene51231356]

Rudolf Hess next please!

[@morganmcgeoy4250]

This stuff gets complicated in a way when his entire life history is analyzed. But in no way is he guiltless but there's many more than him who were much more complicit.

[@anymongus]

Tons of complicit people who got away with murder.

[@jacquesmertens3369]

Wonderful documentary about a less known Nazi figure. It does surprise me that some people keep referring to the Nazi's as right wing, when Hitler himself made it very clear the Nazi's were socialists. His voters were mainly factory workers, impoverished by the Versailles treaty and by the 1929 financial crash. In ideological terms the communists weren't his adversary, but he competed with them during the elections, therefore he wanted them out. After WW II the Nazi ideology and many of its traditions and institutions were perpetuated in the DDR. But this time they called themselves socialists. Compare the Hitlerjugend to the FDJ and you will hardly find any difference. An inconvenient truth perhaps.

[@Nah08]

Right wing left wing don't matter hopefully there all rotting in hell

[@mikesilverton2309]

As a "socialist" regime the Nazis operated within a capitalist system at least as regards armaments.

[@jacquesmertens3369]

@@mikesilverton2309 The nazi government plundered private savings accounts. Private companies were forced to hire workers, paid with promissory notes (Öffa bills). In theory private companies still existed, but in reality they were puppets of the regime. Nearly all imports were forbidden. And just like in any communist/socialist state everyone had a job, at least on paper. The Nazi regime was socialist/communist in nearly every aspect.

[@realniggashit3]

@@mikesilverton2309 The current CCP regime in China isn't any different lol

[@destubae3271]

@@mikesilverton2309 If they were capitalist, the ideology and policies would make no sense. Lenin wasn't socialist by that definition

[@paddyseamair6336]

Kaunas was not the second main city of Lithuania, but the capital because Vilnius then Wilno,formerly Wilna was in Poland.

[@joehart7260]

Anyone who believed power in Britain lay in the monarchy and not the government could not have been very bright.

[@standalon3308]

This is not primarily about Ribbentrop. Though I wish it were. I became a brother of his on the day of his execution, when he said on the way to the gallows "I put my trust in the Lamb of God who bears the sins of the world". This 'documentary' is designed to reconvince people that Communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were political opposites. They were not. At best they were diagonal opposites with a very tight angle of deflection. How can anyone miss this when both were (are, but not specific nation states) Socialist?

[@robinhood4911]

Joseph Goebbels explains the differences of these two systems very well from the theoretical and practical point of view. Quite close to each other in theory, but in practice the opposition to reality.

[@SomeMoreofit]

This documentary channel is the truth

[@Isaacngandu04]

Well I enjoyed the documentary Ribbentrop was only a guy that wanted peace but since the relationship he with Hilter was stronger he had no choice but to be with Hilter. This is an innocent man that was connected with the hands of an evil person

[@robinhood4911]

This "evil" was adored by human society and for good reason. Were it not for the omnipotent censorship and lies, today he would also be adored. For the consolation of you, I will add that I also once thought about him in the same way as you do today.

[@IDBTitanosaurus]

The saddest thing about Von Ribbentrop, had Hitler not invaded Russia, Joey might still be alive.

[@Bigsky1991]

Ribbentrop's son was a Hauptsturmführer and Panzer Kompanie Führer in the LSSAH (Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler) aka the 1st SS Panzer Division. He was also a Knights Cross holder.

[@raymondreaney6988]

Hitler's choice to attack Russia and leave the UK undefeated was because by 1940 Germany was suffering from both an oil and food shortage. This gave Hitler 2 options, the first being to invade the UK which has little food and no oil, or invade Russia which had tons of food and oil. Certain officials knew that by 1941 Germany would have ran out of oil and food, hence why Hitler attacked Russia and tried to capture the food and oil fields in the South of Russia. I don't think this was Hitler being mad or going against his diplomats, this was a strategic plan to capture the food and oil Germany would have needed in 1942 / 43.

[@patriciaramsey5294]

I spent the summer of 2019 studying WWII, but I don't remember this man. Plus. I never knew or read about the Russian-German pact. Hard to believe those 2 countries were allies. Stalin must have felt betrayed. Thank you for these videos. Every one brings out new details I never knew or possibly had forgotten.

[@Wenchework]

Theres a saying «To kill a monster you have to become the monster»I think that about sums up Hitler and Stalin

[@cobusprinsloo]

Was von Ribbentrop’s direct involvement with the holocaust proven beyond a doubt? Besides this, I fail to understand why he received the death penalty.

[@StoneInMySandal]

His sentence was based on the totality of his crimes, not any particular crime. His involvement was demonstrated definitively in correspondence where he directly intervened to accelerate the removal of Jews from Axis satellites with the express intent of extermination. The crimes against peace charge was a major contributor. Documentation exposing the fact he had negotiated with foreign governments in bad faith. He also engaged in manipulation of the plebiscite in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and he tried to get Japan to invade Russia. Any of the individual charges qualified for capital punishment, but all of them together made a custodial sentence impossible.

[@marcelgalban9088]

Ribbentrop in his book, tells other story, he knew so much about how hypocrital were the brittish, bacause the military agreement between France an UK with Poland in July 1939, that is why Hitler made propose to reach a pact of none agression with URSS and later why they (Brittish) wanted him dead, t the end of the war

[@johnrose4572]

Hitler was actually quite annoyed with Mussolini over the Munich conference. The Fuhrer did not really want the Sudetenland - he wanted to conquer Czechoslovakia; manufacturing the Sudeten crisis was only a pretext. But the summit had been the Duce's initiative; and Hitler could not afford a direct snub to his own chief ally.

[@mortimusmaximus8725]

When a Champagne salesman, becoming Reichsminister of Foreign Affairs 😀

[@dannybeun948]

Fantastic documentary 👌

[@coltentackett892]

Glad to know Volkswagen sponsored this video 😂😂😂

[@orarinnsnorrason4614]

Excellent documentary. Great job.

[@StephenLuke]

RIH Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946)

[@paulbrower4265]

Charm that one uses to get away with bad stuff is one mark of a sociopath.

[@rockgodoftheuniverse]

There is a free PDF version of a small book called This Man Ribbentrop that I found some years ago.

[@thesunrising4982]

Quite interesting, thank you.

[@erichall465]

Excellent doc! I've always thought he was just a passive foreign minister

[@hjyjlkpoijnfgtr]

Could you guys invite Mark Felton for a collab one of these days? That’ll be cool

[@mikebailey9566]

Ribbentrop was known in diplomatic circles as a sort of dim witted fellow.

[@CanHistory2012]

Minor correction: Joachim was born in 1893 not 83

[@jennyleishman9617]

He played golf in my hometown of Donaghadee Co Down Northern Ireland... Just b4 the 2nd WW...

[@catherinecoales4392]

The force of evil whether through ideology or pursuit of power for its own sake leads to the same outcome. To try to understand either mindset fills me with horror and some how leaves me so doomladen that I wonder if these evil forces are still winning today as they try to exhaust the goodness in the world. God help the people to whom their mindsets caused unimaginable fear and misery. A very good documentary. I abhore the lot of them regardless of their motive.

[@jacobbartram5202]

Thank you. I'm really enjoying these profiles.

[@AdamAtrocity17]

Ribbentrop wasn't a terrible man. He served his nation as he had to. His biggest crime was that his nation lost the war.

[@levisguy53]

indeed, shouldn't have been among the condemned during the sham war trials.

[@rachelmiller7525]

Are you insane he help Hilter, what part of helping Hilter is a good thing?

[@robinhood4911]

@@rachelmiller7525 You don't know the real history.

[@rachelmiller7525]

@@robinhood4911 Neither do you, but just like you, I wasn't there but by all accounts, he didn't do the right thing, and therefore he should hang...

[@realniggashit3]

Yeah, he was just an unscrupulous social climbing careerist caught up in a bad situation. He also had better instinct than Hitler because he wasn't ideological. He knew very early that Britain would never align themselves with Germany and Germany should instead ally with the Soviet Union to destroy the British Empire. Stalin was receptive to this, but ideologues like Hitler and Hess obsessively tried to make nice with Britain while stabbing the Russians in the back because they were blinded by anti-communism and anti-Slavic racism. Ribbentrop was the only one who understood that race and ideology don't matter in geopolitics, only interests. If Ribbentrop were in charge, Germany might've won the war.

[@hanseekhoff1093]

Except the rather poor painted images these are excellent documentaries and fortunately with pleasant and articulated narratives in good English, unlike several other historic videos on KZbin which are almost painful to listen to....👍

[@Travisjoe31]

It's strange that this guy got executed, but Albert Speer and Von Braun didn't.

[@benwilliam9415]

It was very difficult to escape justice in Nuremberg 1946 , infact it was rocketscience

[@balrog322]

Probably the only champagne salesman to become foreign minister of a major nation.

[@joe18750]

The Nazi party was not a right wing political party. Neither were Mussolini's fascist. They were simply less left wing than the communist. With Nazism favoring a distinct bigotry of Jews. Both Hitler and Mussolini have a well documented history of leftist politics. I refer you to Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism for the citations.

[@JamesSmith-rh4is]

Liberals are not fascists at all. Fascism and liberalism are actually two separate and opposing political ideologies.

[@joe18750]

@@JamesSmith-rh4is no. They’re not. Both Hitler and Mussolini were lefty’s before they were fascist. The root of fascism is socialism. I refer you to the work of Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism. The Nazi party was called the National Socialists party.

[@oldViking66]

Keitel lost a Son in a Russian Gulag till after his Death he came home with 400 that were released, Donitz lost 2 Sons at sea, Ribbentrop had a Warrior Son on the front lines on the eastern front, westernfront and Italy EK recipient, these leaders didnt protect their offering

[@spencerpollock5688]

Can you do the story of leaders of Germany World War 1 such as Paul Von Hindenburg and was he a great general or the man riding the coattails of others or Kaiser Wilhelm ll a Noble leader or a Madman keep up the amazing work

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

Thanks. Would be cool to see a video about Molotov, but to be honest it's not a high priority for me right now.

[@joehart7260]

That would be fascinating, especially his meeting with Ribbentrop in Berlin in 1940 when Ribbentrop tried to convince Molotov that Britain was finished while British bombs were falling overhead.

[@castlerock58]

I was a little disappointed that it skipped over the substance of the case for hanging a foreign minister. He had input into Germany's diplomatic policy until 1941 but did not commit or order any war crimes. Of all the Nazis executed, the case against him seems the weakest. It is difficult to see how diplomacy, even by an evil country, can be a war crime since there is no command responsibility. You are communicating messages from your government to other governments. If a foreign minister has input into a decision to commit a war crime as part of a cabinet, they would be guilty. Hitler was a dictator. It would be worth knowing whether Ribbentrop advised Hitler to commit a war crime. Did he advise Hitler to invade Poland which was considered the crime of aggressive war?

[@StoneInMySandal]

Ribbentrop was found to have negotiated with foreign nations in bad faith. That’s a major crime (crimes against peace) that by itself qualifies for capital punishment. But when combined with his direct personal intervention in accelerating the removal of Jews from Axis satellite countries with the express intention of their extermination there was no other possible for sentencing.

[@00-Dima]

Now we have the pact 2.0

[@markmeyer4664]

Great documentary

[@hanseekhoff1093]

A few slight mistakes: "Germany was rebuilding its Military, Navy and Air Force". That should be: "Germany was rebuilding its Army, Navy and Air Force". Army, Navy and Air Force are ALL Military, which is another word for Armed Forces. Also, Goebbels was NOT Hitler's "appointed successor". In his last testament Hitler appointed Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. And nothing about the botched execution of Ribbentrop who wasn't dead after the drop and had to be strangled by a US soldier who hung on his legs until Ribbentrop suffocated.

[@robwebster7406]

Thanks for the great vid, if I win that battery car can I swap it for a Ford 🤔

[@hectorkeezy1633]

I will do it when i get home

[@anthonymcguire8478]

Very good video ribbentrop is a interesting character I have a suggestion for a few videos how about the 19th century mexican generals santa anna ampudia bravo woll etc

[@ralphnoyes4366]

Fine content, well-done. Very informative.

[@gavinwells5829]

National socialist Germany was not fascist. Italian fascist socialism was different than German national socialism. Communism and national socialism weren’t opposites. They were competitors in left wing socialism

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

That would be why Hitler put socialists and trade unionists in concentration camps, would it? And you've invented "fascist socialism" in Italy - which would have come to as big a surprise to Mussolini as it would to Franco, who was certainly a fascist on the Italian model, in Spain. Dictatorships tend to look alike despite the ideological character which is alleged to lie behind them because they're about nationalism and a self-interested lust for personal power. You see the same kind of mad little man clamouring to be noticed and yearning for importance, from Hitler, Franco, Stroessner, Pinochet, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, and Putin. Fortunately, few of them tend to launch wars against others - though too many do. And they would - whether they called themselves fascist, Nazi, socialist, communist, Christian, Islamist, Pan African. The trick the world needs to learn is to crush the horrors before they get their hands on the levers of power, torture, and murder.

[@gavinwells5829]

@@RobertJonesWightpaint Yes, Hitler put non-ideologically alined socialist in camps. Along with Marxist, who he saw as controlled by the Jews. He forced trade unions to disband and join the national approved trade union. Those that refused to be socialized were expunged. The Christian’s fought the Muslims. By that logic, which one wasn’t religious?. Mussolini started as an anarchist and then joined the communist party in Italy. He was kicked out for the big question of socialism at the time. Nationalism or internationalism. That’s it. He wanted to unite the Italian people with their own national syndicalism.

[@jerhurricane]

Have you thought about doing one on joanna of castile?

[@Stevos-oo2vd]

I personally think that Ribbontrop did not deserve the death penalty. Yes he was a Nazi and deserved to be punished, but, with the likes of Doenitz and Speer, his punishment should have been in line with their sentence should be commensurate with theirs. After all , if our politicians of today have the same rules, they would all be strung up. PS I am NOT a fan or supporter of the Nazies in any way, shape or form. And neither communists. The world is better of without dictatiors.

[@petecapper8399]

don't forget, his sidekick, Ron Von Ribbentrop almost won the Minehead Bye election in the 1980s

[@michaelpisani5962]

Excellent presentation and a few surprising facts.

[@josebarberena9564]

Damn, Hitler was a strategic fool, im sure the soviet union wouldve been more antagonistic against the allies had Hitler thought about it more and listened to his staff, therefore, making the allies more wary of uniting with the soviet juggernaut against the nazis.

[@ricardobecker7028]

Like all the inner circle and Hitler himself, Ribbentrop was a "wannabe", and he didn't care who was needed to step in and over. An opportunist with good conections at best. This particular group, can be moniquer " the survival of the unfittest" - All of their top higher ups, living off the monies stolen from the victims of the holacaust, and the ones who could afford to pay to emigrate, plus the robberies commited in occupied countries. Their heatred based on envy, plus their individual failures, earlier in life, which was left behind by leading a life of false realm, while being nothing more, than calculating assasins. Ribbentrop, another frustraded german, that could not " fit in " , He, Hiyler anf their chronies, boil down to be nothing else, but common criminals with modern and no so modern, mechanized methods of killing at their disposal. How could Ribbentrop not known dhen he was front face to put pressure, on most pre invasion of their esrlier regime of expansion.

[@annaczapla4366]

Ribbentrop wasn't an exception, most of Hitler's Nazi inner circle were opportunists, hierarchy ladder climbers. Penniless Göring married Baroness Carin von Kantzow, who left her husband Swedish Army officer Nils von Kantzow. Her family had supported them financially until he joined the Nazi Party met Hitler and became a collector of positions, medals, art and jewelry through looting Jews. Hans Frank appointed Governor General of Poland, Gebbels, Himmler with their rivals Bormann, Speer, Heydrich.

[@silviosaditesche1556]

Henkell, ein ausserordentlicher guter Wein!

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

Reichstag is pronounced Rikestag - more or less: the 'chs' is hard, 'ks'. And while we're in tedious pedant's corner, your illustration of Ribbentrop shows him wearing a Waffen SS shoulder strap on an Allgemeine SS black uniform. Otherwise, an excellent video making sense of a complex period: it's just that the repeated mis-pronunciation of 'Reichstag' triggered me as it featured so often.

[@johnrogan9420]

Mispronounced Joaquin tambien...auch

[@philmatthews5523]

I am writing this mail

[@bavros1998]

„Rikestag“??? Where did you get that nonsense from? The „ch“ is just pronounced as a simple „H“ like in „Harry“.

[@joostkiefte7683]

Ribbentrop's hanging was apparently bungled and it took him 20 minutes to die.

[@hugopetrus34]

He was a man out of his depth

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

The Axis countries are often forgotten when talking WW2 history people in general just go for the german fashists.