Ribbentrop

American  

[rib-uhn-trawp] / ˈrɪb ənˌtrɔp /

noun

1. Joachim von 1893–1946, German leader in the Nazi party: minister of foreign affairs 1938–45; executed for war crimes.

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Ribbentrop British  

/ ˈrɪbəntrɔp /

noun

1. Joachim von (ˈjoːaxɪm fɔn). 1893–1946, German Nazi politician: foreign minister under Hitler (1938–45). He was hanged after conviction as a war criminal at Nuremberg

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Example Sentences

In the end, the International Military Tribunal convicted 19 of the top surviving Nazi officials, with Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Keitel, and Joachim von Ribbentrop among the 12 sentenced to death.

From Slate

On August 23, 1939, Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, the same official who’d hosted the Rodina’s crew at his summer house, signed a treaty with Germany’s foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop.

From Literature

They also developed ties to top Nazis: Joachim Ribbentrop, who served as Hitler’s bumbling ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and then as foreign minister; Hermann Göring, the Luftwaffe’s commander in chief and president of the Reichstag; and Hitler’s nominal deputy, Rudolf Hess.

From Washington Post

The pope personally repeated this message to Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi foreign minister, soon after the defeat of Poland and the closing of churches and convents there.

From Washington Post

Offering “a reminder, to Putin’s diplomats,” Kyslytsya recalled that officials from Nazi Germany, such as Joachim von Ribbentrop, who served as Hitler’s foreign minister, “denied any knowledge of concentration camps, racial extermination policies, yet was found guilty at the Nuremberg war crimes trial.”

From Washington Post