Joachim von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop (born Joachim Ribbentrop) was the Nazi German ambassador to the United Kingdom and later foreign minister under Adolf Hitler.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ribbentrop and his wife were well-known high society figures in Berlin during the 1920s. He awarded himself the "von" that denoted nobility.
In 1932, Ribbentrop joined the Nazi Party.
In 1936, he was secretly involved with Wallis Simpson, the mistress and potential bride of the future King Edward VIII. He was also working with the Players to help arrange events so that Edward would dismiss his existing government and form a new one more sympathetic to Hitler's policies. This plan was thwarted when the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visited that time period to track the Players' interference in history, with Peri managing to steal a list of Nazi sympathisers in Britain when von Ribbentrop tried to interrogate her about her "real" history after the Players claimed that she was an American secret agent to try and get her out of the way. Hitler was left outraged at the failure of von Ribbentrop's plan and his inability to provide the real list of Nazi sympathisers, Peri having switched it for a laundry list before she escaped. (PROSE: Players [+]Loading...["Players (novel)"])
In 1939, von Ribbentrop met Ace at a Nazi party rally in Nuremberg and struck up a conversation with her. He later informed Hitler that Great Britain had declared war on Germany for their invasion of Poland. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Joachim von Ribbentrop was among the senior Nazis tried at the Nuremberg trials. He was found guilty on all four charges against him and sentenced to death by hanging. While the Nuremberg trials have been mentioned in the DWU, Ribbentrop has not been mentioned to have been a defendant.
- He was portrayed by Geoffrey Toone in the ITV Sunday Night Theatre episode "The Death of Adolf Hitler", Anton Diffring in The Winds of War and John Woodvine in Countdown to War.
