"[279] His body, like those of the other nine executed men and of the suicide Hermann Gring, was cremated at Ostfriedhof (Munich) and the ashes were scattered in the river Isar.[280][281][282]. For other people with the surname, see, Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop, Munich Agreement and Czechoslovakia's destruction, French-German Non-Aggression pact, December 1938, German threat to Poland and British guarantee, Pact with Soviet Union and outbreak of World War II. [17], In 1919, Ribbentrop met Anna Elisabeth Henkell ("Annelies" to her friends),[18] the daughter of a wealthy Wiesbaden wine producer. Commissioned in 1941, he served in Finland and at the retreat from Kharkov, with 1st Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, he took part in the famous battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 before . Georg Julius Adolf Hermann Richard von Ribbentrop, Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ancestry.com. [133] Though the Germans were not planning an attack on Poland in March 1939, Ribbentrop's bullying behaviour towards the Poles destroyed any faint chance Poland allowing Danzig to return to Germany.[134]. Rudolf von Ribbentrop, an SS officer who shortly before the end of World War II in Europe accompanied his father, Joachim Nazi Germanys foreign minister on a visit to a deluded Adolf Hitler in his bunker in Berlin, died on May 20 in Ratingen, Germany, near Dsseldorf. Adolf Von Ribbentrop - Biographical Summaries of Notable People - MyHeritage Adolf Von Ribbentrop In Biographical Summaries of Notable People Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Spotted an error? [192] Because the Balkans were rich in raw materials such as iron, zinc and oil[citation needed], which could help Germany survive a British blockade, it was viewed as highly important by the Allies to keep German influence in the Balkans to a minimum. [233] He proposed that, after the defeat of Britain, they could carve up the territory in the following way: the Soviet Union would have India and the Middle East, Italy the Mediterranean area, Japan the British possessions in the Far East (presuming of course that Japan would enter the war), and Germany would take central Africa and Britain. As a result, Tiso had the Slovak regional government issue a declaration of independence on 14 March 1939; the ensuing crisis in Czech-Slovak relations was used as a pretext to summon Czecho-Slovak President Emil Hcha to Berlin over his "failure" to keep order in his country. When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him and that to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German embassy in Budapest contact the regent, Admiral Mikls Horthy. By early 1945 he was a battalion commander, temporarily quartered in Berlin. The staff was left to survive the fire-bombing as best it could.[241]. Furthermore, the Germans had broken the British diplomatic codes and were reading the messages between the Foreign Office in London to and from the Embassy in Warsaw. [108] In return, the Germans received little thanks from the Japanese, who refused to allow any new German businesses to be set up in the part of China they had occupied and continued with their policy of attempting to exclude all existing German and all other Western businesses from Japanese-occupied China. [142], On 31 March 1939, Chamberlain announced before the House of Commons the British "guarantee" of Poland, which committed Britain to go to war to defend Polish independence, though pointedly the "guarantee" excluded Polish frontiers. [192], On 25 August 1939, Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler wavered for a moment when the news reached Berlin of the ratification of the Anglo-Polish military alliance and a personal message from Mussolini that told Hitler that Italy would dishonour the Pact of Steel if Germany attacked Poland. [177] When Ciano asked if there was anything Italy could do to broker a Polish-German settlement that would avert a war, he was told by Ribbentrop, "We want war! On 20 March 1939, Ribbentrop summoned Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbys to Berlin and informed him that if a Lithuanian plenipotentiary did not arrive at once to negotiate to turn over the Memelland to Germany the Luftwaffe would raze Kaunas to the ground. In December 1938, during the visit of the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Paris to sign the largely-meaningless French-German Non-Aggression pact, Ribbentrop had conversations with French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, which Ribbentrop later claimed included a promise that France would recognize all of Eastern Europe as Germany's exclusive sphere of influence. The letter was written in January 1946 by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler's foreign affairs minister. [92] In the first report to Hitler, which was presented on 2 January 1938, Ribbentrop stated that "England is our most dangerous enemy". Mr. von Ribbentrop wrote in his book that he ultimately chose not to enter the family business. [23] Ribbentrop began his political career by offering to be a secret emissary between Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen, his old wartime friend, and Hitler. His father met him there on Feb. 3 and asked if he would join him with Hitler in the bunker, beneath the Reich Chancellery building, which had been heavily damaged in Allied air raids. 4994. In 1935, Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Germany, complained to London about Ribbentrop's British associates in the Anglo-German Fellowship. Another area of difference was Ribbentrop's obsessive hatred for Britain which he saw as the main enemy and view of the Soviet Union as an important ally in the anti-British struggle. [15], Ribbentrop served first on the Eastern Front, then was transferred to the Western Front. [40] Ribbentrop was tasked with ensuring that the world remained convinced that Germany sincerely wanted an arms-limitation treaty, but he ensured that no such treaty was ever developed. lenov Ribbentropovy rodiny slouili v nmeck armd (nap. Here are two pics from the Ribbentrop family, showing a very young son Adolf, named after his Godfather Hitler. [10], He worked for the Molsons Bank on Stanley Street in Montreal, and then for the engineering firm M. P. and J. T. Davis on the Quebec Bridge reconstruction. [182] During his trip to Moscow, Ribbentrop's talks with Stalin and Molotov proceeded very cordially and efficiently with the exception of the question of Latvia, which Hitler had instructed Ribbentrop to try to claim for Germany. That remark led Gring to reply "Mein Fhrer, that may be right, but the bad thing is, they know him". Adolf Hitler with Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1935, in one of several rare photographs included in Rudolf von Ribbentrops book, My Father: Joachim von Ribbentrop., the nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. [248] On 7 December 1941, Ribbentrop was jubilant at the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and did his utmost to support a declaration of war on the United States. He believed it marked the beginning of an Anglo-German alliance, and ordered celebrations throughout Germany to mark the event. [43] The Dienststelle Ribbentrop, which had its offices directly across from the Foreign Office's building on the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, had in its membership a collection of Hitlerjugend alumni, dissatisfied businessmen, former reporters, and ambitious Nazi Party members, all of whom tried to conduct a foreign policy independent of and often contrary to the official Foreign Office. Among other tests, he administered a German version of the WechslerBellevue IQ test. He delivered the official declaration to the American Charg d'Affaires Leland B. Morris on 11 December 1941. [184] When Stalin claimed Latvia for the Soviet Union, Ribbentrop was forced to telephone Berlin for permission from Hitler to concede Latvia to the Soviets. Many historians have suggested that Hitler was prepared to reinstate the Duke of Windsor as king in the hope of establishing a fascist Britain. [161] In mid-1939, Ribbentrop sabotaged all efforts at a peaceful solution to the Danzig dispute, leading the American historian Gerhard Weinberg to comment that "perhaps Chamberlain's haggard appearance did him more credit than Ribbentrop's beaming smile", as the countdown to a war that would kill tens of millions inexorably gathered pace. Just one grandparent can lead you to many One classmate, Peter Ustinov, later a prominent actor, writer and director, wrote in his 1977 memoir, Dear Me, that Mr. von Ribbentrop had arrived each morning dressed like the rest of us but with the Nazi party youth badge swastika, eagle and all prominently and incongruously displayed in his lapel.. [269] Three days later, Ribbentrop attempted to meet with Hitler, but was rejected with the explanation the Fhrer had more important things to do. Leave a message for others who see this profile. Freiherr von Weizscker responded, "Hitler never noticed Ribbentrop's babbling because Hitler always did all the talking. [253] Ribbentrop halted deportations from Romania and Croatia; in the case of the former, he was insulted because the SS were negotiating with the Romanians directly, and in the case of the latter, he learned that the SS and Luther had pressured the Italians in their zone of occupation to deport their Jews without first informing Ribbentrop. Matsuoka responded that preparations to occupy Singapore were under way. [180] That was especially the case as decrypts showed the British military attach to Poland arguing that Britain could not save Poland in the event of a German attack and that only Soviet support offered the prospect of Poland holding out. [161] The extent that Hitler was influenced by Ribbentrop's advice can be seen in Hitler's orders for a limited mobilisation against Poland alone. However, of the invited powers, only the Italians would ultimately sign. I didn't know that he had more than one son. When Adolf born she was 39 years old. [55] Hitler and Ribbentrop believed that demanding colonial restoration would pressure the British into making an alliance with the Reich on German terms. [218] After the Italo-German summit at the Brenner Pass on 18 March 1940, which was attended by Hitler and Mussolini, Count Ciano wrote in his diary: "Everyone in Rome dislikes Ribbentrop". [85] Following the lead of Andreas Hillgruber, who argued that Hitler had a Stufenplan (stage by stage plan) for world conquest, Hildebrand argued that Ribbentrop may not have fully understood what Hitler's Stufenplan was or that in pressing so hard for colonial restoration, he was trying to score a personal success that might improve his standing with Hitler. Continue with Recommended Cookies. His body was a wreck, he wrote in My Father: Joachim von Ribbentrop, which was first published in German in 2008 and translated into English by Doolie Sloman this year. [96] In the same report, Ribbentrop advised Hitler to abandon the idea of a British alliance and instead embrace the idea of an alliance of Germany, Japan and Italy to destroy the British Empire. The Sudetenland issue, which was the ostensible subject of the German-Czechoslovak dispute, had been a pretext for German aggression. Invited to stay as a house guest of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry at Wynyard Hall in County Durham, in November 1936, he was taken to a service in Durham Cathedral, and the hymn Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken was announced. Gring shouted, threatening to smack Ribbentrop with his marshal's baton. He will be turning 88 in only 227 days from today (18 January, 2023). [32], In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly-embarrassing situation since his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos to offer to open talks on returning the former German colonies in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe. He favoured retaining good relations with the Soviets, and opposed the invasion of the Soviet Union. [14] He earned a commission and was awarded the Iron Cross. [45] Ribbentrop wanted to buy time to complete German rearmament by removing preventive war as a French policy option. Ribbentrop became Hitler's favourite foreign-policy adviser, partly by dint of his familiarity with the world outside Germany but also by flattery and sycophancy. On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for US President Franklin Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest. [175] In July 1939, Ribbentrop's claims about an alleged statement of December 1938 made by French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet were to lead to a lengthy war of words via a series of letters to the French newspapers between Ribbentrop and Bonnet over precisely what Bonnet had said to Ribbentrop. "Misjudging Hitler" pp. by BLACK NIGHT 05 Sep 2003, 23:12, Return to The Dieter Zinke Axis Biographical Research Section. [236] The major qualifications of all these men, none of whom had previously held a diplomatic position before, were that they were close friends of Luther and helped to enable a split in the SS (the traditional rivalry between the SS and SA was still running strong). [32] In an interview, his secretary Reinhard Spitzy stated, "He [Ribbentrop] behaved very stupidly and very pompously and the British don't like pompous people". In July 1935, Brigadier Sir Francis Featherstone-Godley led the British Legion's delegation to Germany. [125] By allowing the Hungarians to destroy Europe's only Ukrainian state, Ribbentrop had signified that Germany was not interested, at least for now, in sponsoring Ukrainian nationalism. "[276], Gustave Gilbert, an American Army psychologist, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders who stood trial. [193] British and French leaders believed that the deterrent value of the "peace front" could be increased if Turkey were a member, and the Turkish Straits were open to Allied ships. 225246 from, Offner, Arnold "The United States and National Socialist Germany" pp. [148] As the Germans had broken the Turkish diplomatic codes, Ribbentrop was well aware as he warned in a circular to German embassies that Anglo-Turkish talks had gone much further "than what the Turks would care to tell us". He must be much younger than Rudolf. [222] Ribbentrop championed the so-called Madagascar Plan in June 1940 to deport all of Europe's Jews to Madagascar after the presumed imminent defeat of Britain. Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop [1] ( German: [joaxm fn rbntrp]; 30 April 1893 - 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. [233] Molotov was open to the idea of the Soviet Union entering the war on the Axis side, but demanded as the price of entry into the war that Germany recognise Finland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Hungary and Yugoslavia as within the exclusive Soviet sphere of influence. Location: Germany. Ribbentrop supported Marshal Ion Antonescu's government and Heinrich Himmler supported the Iron Guard. [27] Joseph Goebbels expressed a common view when he confided to his diary that "Von Ribbentrop bought his name, he married his money and he swindled his way into office". [161] Ciano complained furiously that Ribbentrop had violated his promise given earlier that year, when Italy signed the Pact of Steel, that there would be no war for the next three years. [59], The origins of the Anti-Comintern Pact went back to mid-1935, when in an effort to square the circle between seeking a rapprochement with Japan and Germany's traditional alliance with China, Ribbentrop and shima devised the idea of an anticommunist alliance as a way to bind China, Japan and Germany together. ), Waddington, Geoffrey. In 1918, 1st Lieutenant Ribbentrop was stationed in Istanbul as a staff officer. [61] Ribbentrop, who valued Japanese friendship far more than that of the Chinese, argued that Germany and Japan should sign the pact without Chinese participation. jeho pradd bojoval v nmecko-dnsk vlce v roce 1864 jako gardov kapitn a bylo mu udlen vyznamenn Pour le Mrite; jeho . [11] He returned to Canada and set up a small business in Ottawa importing German wine and champagne. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. [98] Besides converting the Anti-Comintern Pact into an anti-British military alliance, Ribbentrop argued that German foreign policy should work to "winning over all states whose interests conform directly or indirectly to ours. It convinced many in France that Hitler was a man of peace, who wanted to do away only with Part V of the Versailles Treaty. 'War, for instance . The answer is, von Ribbentrop. Discussions on the personalities of the Wehrmacht and of the organizations not covered in the other sections. His son Rudolf is less known, though he also served the Reich. [216] On 10 March 1940, Ribbentrop visited Rome to meet with Mussolini, who promised him that Italy would soon enter the war. [83] In September 1937, the British Consul in Munich, writing about the group that Ribbentrop had brought to the Nuremberg Rally, reported that there were some "serious persons of standing among them" but that an equal number of Ribbentrop's British contingent were "eccentrics and few, if any, could be called representatives of serious English thought, either political or social, while they most certainly lacked any political or social influence in England". (Henkell) Before World War II, he played a key role in brokering the Pact of Steel (an alliance with Fascist Italy) and the MolotovRibbentrop Pact (the NaziSoviet non-aggression pact). [156], Ribbentrop played a key role in the conclusion of a Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the MolotovRibbentrop Pact, in 1939 and in the diplomatic action surrounding the attack on Poland. During the abdication crisis in December 1936, Ribbentrop reported to Berlin that it had been precipitated by an anti-German Jewish-Masonic-reactionary conspiracy to depose Edward, whom Ribbentrop represented as a staunch friend of Germany, and that civil war would soon break out in Britain between supporters of Edward and those of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. [46], Although the Dienststelle Ribbentrop was concerned with German relations in every part of the world, it emphasised Anglo-German relations, as Ribbentrop knew that Hitler favoured an alliance with Britain. There is no other possibility".[260]. [59][60] Neurath very much believed in maintaining Germany's good relations with China and mistrusted the Empire of Japan. 413427 from, Browning, Christopher (1990) "Ribbentrop, Joachim von," in. Joachim von Ribbentrop was born in Wesel, Rhenish Prussia, to Richard Ulrich Friedrich Joachim Ribbentrop, a career army officer, and his wife Johanne Sophie Hertwig. Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop[1] (German: [joaxm fn rbntrp]; 30 April 1893 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. [53] The diplomatic success did much to increase Ribbentrop's prestige with Hitler, who called the day the AGNA was signed "the happiest day in my life". [181] Ribbentrop had expected to see only the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and was most surprised to be holding talks with Joseph Stalin himself. [147] On 23 April 1939, Turkish Foreign Minister kr Saracolu told the British ambassador of Turkish fears of Italian claims of the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum and German control of the Balkans, and he suggested an Anglo-Soviet-Turkish alliance as the best way of countering the Axis. And Ribbentrop was blowing up the whole day and I had to do nothing. Mussolini's motives were in no way altruistic. Fluent in both French and English, young Ribbentrop lived at various times in Grenoble, France and London, before travelling to Canada in 1910. [250] From Ribbentrop's point of view, this had the dual benefit of ensuring popular support for the German Army as it advanced into the Caucasus and of ensuring that it was the Foreign Office that ruled the Caucasus once the Germans occupied the area. Rudolf von Ribbentrop, an SS officer who shortly before the end of World War II in Europe accompanied his father, Joachim Nazi Germany's foreign minister on a visit to a deluded Adolf. Joachim von Ribbentrop was a German diplomat, foreign minister under the Nazi regime, and chief negotiator of the treaties with which Germany entered World War II. [258] Luther's putsch failed largely because Himmler decided that a foreign ministry headed by Luther would be a more dangerous opponent than the Ribbentrop version. Slovnk Sbrky Kvz Spoleenstv Pispt Certificate . [48] Because the Foreign Office's diplomats were not so sunny in their appraisal of the prospects for an alliance, Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler increased. Rhineland, Prussia, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1533-1950 [database on-line]. He was the son of the German diplomat and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. by hajo 04 Sep 2003, 20:15, Post Ciano said that it was absurd to believe that the Reich could attack Poland without triggering a wider war and that now the Italians were left with the choice of going to war when they needed three more years to rearm or being forced into the humiliation of having to violate the terms of the Pact of Steel by declaring neutrality, which would make the Italians appear cowardly. [38] Hitler's meeting with Brinon had a huge effect on French public opinion and helped to put an end to the calls for a preventive war. Rudolf (98, SS officer) and Friedrich (32) . [64] Ribbentrop persuaded the Royal British Legion and many French veterans' groups to send delegations to Germany to meet German veterans as the best way to promote peace. On 25 March 1941, Yugoslavia reluctantly signed the Tripartite Pact; the next day the Yugoslav military overthrew Prince Paul in a bloodless coup. "[34], Another factor that aided Ribbentrop's rise was Hitler's distrust of and disdain for Germany's professional diplomats. Joachim von Ribbentrop scored 129, the 10th highest among the Nazi leaders tested. [228] Another German diplomatic historian, Wolfgang Michalka argued that there was a fourth alternative to the Nazi foreign policy programme, and that was Ribbentrop's concept of a Eurasian bloc comprising the four totalitarian states of Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Japan. In the military, Mr. von Ribbentrop was wounded several times and awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, among other honors. [98], In early 1938, Hitler asserted his control of the military-foreign policy apparatus, in part by sacking Neurath. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. [12][13], When the First World War began later in 1914, Ribbentrop left Canada, which as part of the British Empire was at war with Germany, and found temporary sanctuary in neutral United States. [203] On 31 August, Ribbentrop met with Ambassador Attolico to tell him that Poland's "rejection" of the "generous" German 16-point peace plan meant that Germany had no interest in Mussolini's offer to call a conference about the status of Danzig. [244] But Ribbentrop's motives in seeking to have Japan enter the war were more anti-British than anti-Soviet. "You dirty little champagne salesman! Friedrich was born on March 8 1832, in Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany. In the first, from 1938 to 1939, he tried to persuade other states to align themselves with Germany for the coming war. His father was a German general. He flew to Moscow, where, over the course of a thirteen-hour visit, Ribbentrop signed both the Non-Aggression Pact and the secret protocols, which partitioned much of Eastern Europe between the Soviets and the Germans. During that meeting, both Ciano and Attolico were horrified to learn from Ribbentrop that Germany planned to attack Poland and that the Danzig issue was just a pretext for aggression. Initially, Germany hoped to transform Poland into a satellite state, with von Ribbentrop and Japanese military attache Hiroshi shima trying to convince Poland to join the Anti-Comintern Pact. That marked a significant escalation of the German pressure on Poland, which had been confined to private meetings between German and Polish diplomats. Ribbentrop's friendship with Papen, which went back to 1918, ended over that issue. [20], In 1928, Ribbentrop was introduced to Adolf Hitler as a businessman with foreign connections who "gets the same price for German champagne as others get for French champagne". [195] The Greek historian Aristotle Kaillis wrote that it was Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler and his insistence that the Western powers would fail to go to war for Poland that was the most important reason that Hitler did not cancel Fall Wei, the German invasion of Poland, altogether, instead of only postponing "X-day" for six days. [158], Throughout 1939, Hitler always privately referred to Britain as his main opponent but portrayed the coming destruction of Poland as a necessary prelude to any war with Britain. [76] On Neurath's advice, Hitler disavowed Ribbentrop's demand that King George receive and give the "German greeting". [195] Because of Ribbentrop's firmly-held views that Britain was Germany's most dangerous enemy and that an Anglo-German war was inevitable, it scarcely mattered to him when his much-desired war with Britain came. [215] Welles asked Ribbentrop under what terms Germany might be willing to negotiate a compromise peace, before the Phoney War became a real war. [191] The Anglo-French effort to include the Balkans into the "peace front" had always rested on the assumption that the cornerstone of the "peace front" in the Balkans was to be Turkey, the regional superpower. [255] In December 1942, he met with the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who carried Mussolini's request urging the Germans to go on the defensive in the Soviet Union in order to focus on attacking North Africa. [186] For a brief moment in August 1939, Ribbentrop convinced Hitler that the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union would cause the fall of the Chamberlain government and lead to a new British government that would abandon the Poles to their fate. [100], Ribbentrop's time as Foreign Minister can be divided into three periods. Vslovnost Adolf Richard von Ribbentrop s 1 vslovnost audio, a vce Adolf Richard von Ribbentrop. [153] Ribbentrop first seems to have considered the idea of a pact with the Soviet Union after an unsuccessful visit to Warsaw in January 1939, when the Poles again refused Ribbentrop's demands about Danzig, the "extra-territorial" roads across the Polish Corridor and the Anti-Comintern Pact. Ambassador Henderson, who had long advocated concessions to Germany, recognized that here was a deliberately conceived alibi the German government had prepared for a war it was determined to start. I would like to know something about his life after the war, too. [190] The different foreign-policy conceptions held by Hitler and Ribbentrop were illustrated in their reaction to the Fall of Singapore in 1942: Ribbentrop wanted this great British defeat to be a day of celebration in Germany, whereas Hitler forbade any celebrations on the grounds that Singapore represented a sad day for the principles of white supremacy. Michalka, Wolfgang. Ribbentrop joined with Hitler in belittling Italy's war effort. [131] The meeting ended with Ribbentrop screaming that if Poland invaded the Free City of Danzig, Germany would go to war to destroy Poland. Mr. von Ribbentrop joined an SS infantry regiment shortly after the war began in 1939, and he went on to serve in military units in Czechoslovakia, France and the Soviet Union. If Germany had been left stronger in 1919 she would sooner have been in a position to do what she is doing today.[137]. His report delighted Hitler, causing him to remark that Ribbentrop was the only person who told him "the truth about the world abroad". [210] Weizscker later recalled, "On 3 Sept., when the British and French declared war, Hitler was surprised, after all, and was to begin with, at a loss". In that, Ribbentrop was particularly supported by the German Ambassador in London, Herbert von Dirksen, who reported that Chamberlain knew "the social structure of Britain, even the conception of the British Empire, would not survive the chaos of even a victorious war" and so would back down over Poland. [19] In 1925, his aunt, Gertrud von Ribbentrop, adopted him, which allowed him to add the nobiliary particle von to his name. For the next year, Rudolf attended the Westminster School in London, where he wore a class uniform of morning coat and top hat. 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