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He was an interesting German personality. Educated in Switzerland, he

worked in London, Canada and New York prior to WW1 when he returned

to Germany for military service. He won the Iron Cross, was wounded and

invalided out. In the early days of Naziism, he joined and in 1936 became

the Ambassador to Great Britain. In 1938 he was Germany's Foreign

Minister. He later served in minor posts until the end of WW2. He was

arrested and stood trial at Nuremburg. Joachim von Ribbentrop denied

any knowledge of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes but was found guilty and executed on 16 October 1946.

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