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it be denied that he stamped the foreign policy of
the Third Reich with his own personality from
that day in 1938 when he was installed in the
Wilhelmstrasse. He triumphed in Munich in 1938
and the following year in Prague. But his greatest
triumph was in Moscow in 1939, when he put his
signature on the German-Russian pact. And now,
in the spring of 1945, as I talked with him and a
number of other Nazi bigwigs, I had the
impression that he still had Hitler’s ear and enjoyed his
support. Ribbentrop was the man who had shown
the world what Germany was able to do in the
field of foreign policy. It was evident that in
Hitler’s eyes Ribbentrop was a man who had
earned the gratitude of his country.
Sitting with him in his room in the Auswärtiges
Amt and listening to his long-winded speech,
which reminded me of a somewhat worn
phonograph record, I reflected that here was a man of
very small mental stature and, moreover, rather
ridiculous. It was an astonishing thought that this
man had all these years been Minister for Foreign
Affairs of the German Reich. But obviously he
now realized that the game was lost, though he
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