Joachim von Ribbentrop (WL)

Joachim von Ribbentrop is a major antagonist in ''Warring Legends' World War II. ''He was a Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany.

Trial and Execution
Ribbentrop was a defendant at the Nuremberg Trials and the Allies' Internationa Military Tribunal convicted him on four counts: crimes against peace, deliberately planning a war of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was actively involved in planning the invasions of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland and was deeply involved in the "final solution"; as early as 1942 he had ordered German diplomats in Axis countries to hasten the process of sending Jews to death camps in the east. He supported the lynching of Allied airmen shot down over Germany and helped to cover the murder of Major General Gustave Mesny. He was held directly responsible for the atrocities committed in Denmark and Vichy France as well.

On 16 October 1946, Ribbentrop became the first of those sentenced to death at Nuremberg to be hanged after Goring committed suicide just before his scheduled execution. Ribbentrop was escorted up to 13 steps of the gallows and a hood was placed over his head before he was hanged. His body was then cremated at Munich and the ashes were scattered in the river Isar.