Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart,, known as Sir Robert Vansittart between 1929 and 1941, was a senior British diplomat in the period before and during the Second World War. He was Princ
Vansittart in 1929
Joachim von Ribbentrop
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Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was a German politician, diplomat, and war criminal who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
…could not decide whether to follow Joseph Goebbels and Alfred von Tirpitz in viewing Britain as "the ultimate enemy" or on the other hand adopting the Joachim von Ribbentrop policy of appeasing Britain in order to engage in military expansion in the East. Vansittart thought that in either case time should be "bought for…
Ribbentrop in 1938
Ribbentrop and the Japanese ambassador to Germany, Kintomo Mushakoji, sign the Anti-Comintern Pact on 25 November 1936.
Ribbentrop as SS-Gruppenführer, 1938
The French Premier Édouard Daladier (centre) with Ribbentrop at the Munich Summit, 1938