Von Ribbentrop

• In 1935, chosen as Hitler's personal emissary, Ribbentrop helped negotiate the German-British Naval Agreement.
• Ribbentrop became German foreign minister in 1938 and in 1939 he negotiated the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact. In his diaries, he wrote that the pact was 'my very own ideas which I urged on Hitler'.
• Ribbentrop also forbade the German ambassador in Warsaw to negotiate, even when German-Polish relations were at a crisis point. He also refused to pass on to Hitler warning reports regarding the crisis as they didn't support Hitler's personal perspective.
• In 1943, Goering suggested that 'this war is Ribbentrop's war'.
• However, his suggestions were accepted only when they were compatible with Hitler's personal vision, and he was able to gain influence only by telling Hitler what he wanted to hear.