Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Ribbentrop - Hitler's Foreign Minister Documentary" video.

  1. Von Ribbentrop was a social climber and oppertunist. It was these combinations or flaws in his character, plus his political naivety and slavish devotion to Hitler, that propelled him down the path of chief Nazi diplomat (and internal enemy of the wily Admiral Canaris of the republican spy agency, the Abwehr, that Ribbentrop constantly fought for control over). Ribbentrop had a choice to stay out of politics and comfortably remain in his wife's business of selling wine, but his amibition drove him into dark places, that he did not have the wisdom or intelligence to back out of (in the early phases). Although, Albert Speer was as politically implicated in his actions as armament minister as Ribbentrop by using slave labour from concentration camps and working them to death, Speer later escaped the hangman's noose by his much better crafted line of defence than Rippentrop. In my opinion, in his capacity as armaments minister using forced labour under dellberate appalling conditions (that Speer would have known about) and his closeness to Hitler, Speer deserved to be hanged as much as Ribbentrop was for his nefarious actions, but justice does not always get her man.
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