Joachim von Ribbentrop

Joachim von Ribbentrop was the Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany. He had no diplomatic backround, but was able to gain the Foreign Ministry over several other Nazi Party competitors, in part because he did have foreign language skills. Never a member of [Adolf Hitler]]'s inner circle, he was even less so when the extension of national policies became military rather than diplomatic. Von Ribbetrop was tried and executed, principally for planning war, by the Trial of the Major War Criminals by the four-power International Military Tribunal.

He met Hitler in 1932 and offered his servces as interpreter, setting up the Ribbentrop Bureau to provide the Party leadership with information.