Joachim von Ribbentrop

A German politician, diplomat, and businessman. He served as Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945, strongly supporting Adolf Hitler's foreign policy. He was involved in negotiating key pre-war diplomatic agreements, including the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935, the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936, the Pact of Steel with Italy in 1939, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union. He also diplomatically facilitated Germany's territorial expansion, including the Anschluss of Austria, the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, and the invasion of Poland. During World War II, he promoted closer ties among the Axis powers and the declaration of war against the United States, while also involving the Foreign Office in the deportation of Jews from occupied territories. After the war, he was convicted of planning aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, and was executed in 1946.

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1893	Birth of Joachim von Ribbentrop (Period: April 30, 1893, Location: Wesel, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire)
1914	World War I (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France) Participation in World War I (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Eastern Front, Western Front, Constantinople)
1919	Business Activities and Marriage (Age: 25 years old, Period: 1919 – 1920s, Location: Berlin, Wiesbaden, etc., Germany)
1920	Marriage (Joachim von Ribbentrop, Anna Elisabeth Henkell, Age: 27 years old, Period: July 5, 1920, Location: Wiesbaden, Germany)
1925	Acquisition of the "von" Title (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1925, Location: Germany)
1928	Approaching Adolf Hitler (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1928–1933, Location: Munich, Berlin, etc., Germany)
1935	Signing of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement (Age: 42 years old, Period: June 18, 1935, Location: London, United Kingdom)
1936	Appointment as German Ambassador to the United Kingdom (Joachim von Ribbentrop, Age: 43 years old, Period: October 30, 1936 – February 1938, Location: London, United Kingdom)
1938	Appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Joachim von Ribbentrop, Age: 44 years old, Period: February 4, 1938, Location: Berlin, Germany) Annexation of Austria (Anschluss, Age: 44 years old, Period: March 12–13, 1938, Location: Austria) Munich Agreement and Dissolution of Czechoslovakia (Age: 45 years old, Period: September 1938 – March 1939, Location: Munich (Germany), Czechoslovakia)
1939	World War II (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.) Signing of the Pact of Steel (Age: 46 years old, Period: May 22, 1939, Location: Berlin, Germany) Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Age: 46 years old, Period: August 23, 1939 (signed early morning of August 24), Location: Moscow, Soviet Union) Signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Age: 46 years old, Period: August 23, 1939, Location: Moscow, Soviet Union) Invasion of Poland and Outbreak of World War II (Age: 46 years old, Period: September 1, 1939 –, Location: Poland)
1940	Tripartite Pact (Berlin Tripartite Pact, Age: 47 years old, Period: September 27, 1940, Location: Berlin, Germany) Signing of the Tripartite Pact (Age: 47 years old, Period: September 27, 1940, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1941	Involvement in the Declaration of War on the United States (Age: 48 years old, Period: December 1941, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1942	Involvement of the Diplomatic Apparatus in Jewish Deportations and the Holocaust (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1942–1945, Location: German-occupied and allied territories including France, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Balkans) Foreign Office Cooperation in the Holocaust (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1942–1944, Location: France, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Balkans, etc.)
1944	July 20 Plot (Age: 51 years old, Period: July 20, 1944, Location: Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany)
1945	Fall from Power and Flight at the End of World War II (Age: 51 years old, Period: April–June 1945, Location: Berlin, Hamburg, etc.) Nuremberg Trials (Age: 52 years old, Period: November 1945 – October 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany)
1946	Death Sentence at the Nuremberg Trials (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 1, 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany) Death of Joachim von Ribbentrop (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 16, 1946) Execution (Age: 53 years old, Period: October 16, 1946, Location: Nuremberg Prison, Germany)

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Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Martin Ludwig Bormann Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Speer Hermann Wilhelm Göring Paul Joseph Goebbels
Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx Heinrich Brüning Hermann Müller Friedrich Naumann Matthias Erzberger Walther Rathenau
German Anti-Nazis	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Hans Oster Ludwig Beck Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Erwin von Witzleben Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Alexander Schmorell Christoph Probst
Warsaw Ghetto	Mordechai Anielewicz Marek Edelman Tuvia Bielski Abba Kovner Henryk Goldszmit Emanuel Ringelblum
Arts & Music	Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Käthe Schmidt Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

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