The Nuremberg Trials - The Complete Proceedings Vol 10: The Case against von Ribbentrop (The Third Reich from Original Sources)
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The Nuremberg Trials - The Complete Proceedings Vol 10: The Case against von Ribbentrop (The Third Reich from Original Sources)
This volume covers the trial of Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, a man who remained fanatically loyal to Hitler right until the end, saying that “Even with all I know, if in this cell Hitler should come to me and say ‘Do This!’, I would still do it.†It also contains the testimonies of many eye-witnesses, among those, the Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, a high-ranking member of the SS, who was tried in the subsequent “Ministries Trial†for the less important and influential figures of the Nazi Party. Additionally, the testimony of Karl Stroelin, the mayor of Stuttgart was put forth in this trial. Stroelin was involved in the deportation of 2,000 Jews from Stuttgart, the majority of whom were murdered in the death camps, and was thus found guilty in the trial, though he went through de-Nazification and was later released. Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland, the Secretary of State for the Foreign Office during 1943-1945 was also called upon to testify along with Paul Otto Schmidt, who was a translator for Hitler during the surrender of France, the British declaration of War and the Munich Agreement.