It is clear that Ribbentrop supported and encouraged the Nazi program against the Jews, which resulted in their transportation to concentration camps, where things went on which he, as a minister in special touch with the head of the government must have known about. As one who preached this doctrine and was in a position of authority, Ribbentrop cannot suggest that he was ignorant of how the policy was carried out.
D. CONCLUSION
Hitler summed up Ribbentrop’s contribution to the Nazi conspiracy for aggression, as follows:
“In the historic year of 1938 the Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, was of great help to me, in view of his accurate and audacious judgment and the exceptionally clever treatment of all problems of foreign policy.”
During the course of the war, Ribbentrop was in close liaison with the other Nazi conspirators. He advised them and made available to them, through his foreign embassies and legations abroad, information which was required. He at times participated in the planning of war crimes and crimes against humanity. His guilt is clear.
LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP
| Document | Description | Vol. | Page |
| Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 6. | I | 5 | |
| International Military Tribunal, Indictment Number 1, Section IV (H); Appendix A. | I | 29, 57 | |
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| Note: A single asterisk (*) before a document indicates that the document was received in evidence at the Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**) before a document number indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the court. | |||
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| *004-PS | Report submitted by Rosenberg to Deputy of the Fuehrer, 15 June 1940, on the Political Preparation of the Norway Action. (GB 140) | III | 19 |
| *388-PS | File of papers on Case Green (the plan for the attack on Czechoslovakia), kept by Schmundt, Hitler’s adjutant, April-October 1938. (USA 26) | III | 305 |
| *728-PS | Letter of Foreign Office to Chief of Supreme Command of Armed Forces, 20 June 1944, concerning treatment of enemy terror aviators. (GB 152) | III | 526 |
| *735-PS | Minutes of meeting, 6 June 1944, to fix the cases in which the application of Lynch Law against Allied airmen would be justified. (GB 151) | III | 533 |
| *740-PS | Letter from Warlimont, 30 June 1944, concerning treatment of enemy terror aviators. (GB 153) | III | 537 |
| *957-PS | Rosenberg’s letter to Ribbentrop, 24 February 1940. (GB 139) | III | 641 |
| *1014-PS | Hitler’s speech to Commanders-in-Chief, 22 August 1939. (USA 30) | III | 665 |
| 1039-PS | Report concerning preparatory work regarding problems in Eastern Territories, 28 June 1941, found in Rosenberg’s “Russia File”. (USA 146) | III | 695 |
| *1195-PS | Keitel Order, 12 April 1941, for provisional directions for partition of Yugoslavia. (GB 144) | III | 838 |
| *1337-PS | Hitler’s decree electing Ribbentrop member of Secret Cabinet Council, 4 February 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 112. (GB 129) | III | 913 |
| *1439-PS | Treaty of Protection between Slovakia and the Reich, signed in Vienna 18 March and in Berlin 23 March 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 606. (GB 135) | IV | 18 |
| *1520-PS | Memorandum of conference, 8 May 1942 between Hitler, Rosenberg, Lammers, Bormann. (GB 156) | IV | 65 |
| *1746-PS | Conference between German and Bulgarian Generals, 8 February 1941; speech by Hitler to German High Command on situation in Yugoslavia, 27 March 1941; plan for invasion of Yugoslavia, 28 March 1941. (GB 120) | IV | 272 |
| *1752-PS | Preparation for International Anti-Jewish Congress, 15 June 1944. (GB 159) | IV | 280 |
| *1780-PS | Excerpts from diary kept by General Jodl, January 1937 to August 1939. (USA 72) | IV | 360 |
| *1834-PS | Report on conference between Ribbentrop and Oshima, 23 February 1941. (USA 129) | IV | 469 |
| 1842-PS | Meeting of Mussolini and Ribbentrop in Rome, 19 September 1940. (GB 143) | IV | 477 |
| *1866-PS | Record of conversation between Reich Foreign Minister and the Duce, 13 May 1941. (GB 273) | IV | 499 |
| *1871-PS | Report on Hitler and Ciano meeting, 12 August 1939. (GB 142) | IV | 508 |
| *1881-PS | Notes on conference between Hitler and Matsuoka in presence of Ribbentrop in Berlin, 4 April 1941. (USA 33) | IV | 522 |
| *1882-PS | Notes on conference between Ribbentrop and Matsuoka in Berlin, 5 April 1941. (USA 153) | IV | 526 |
| *2307-PS | Law concerning reunion of Austria with German Reich, 13 March 1938. 1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 237. (GB 133) | IV | 997 |
| *2357-PS | Speech by Hitler before Reichstag, 20 February 1938, published in Documents of German Politics, Part VI, 1, pp. 50-52. (GB 30) | IV | 1099 |
| *2360-PS | Speech by Hitler before Reichstag, 30 January 1939, from Voelkischer Beobachter, Munich Edition, 31 January 1939. (GB 134) | IV | 1101 |
| *2450-PS | Two letters from Ribbentrop to Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, as published in Voelkischer Beobachter, Munich Edition, 26 March 1941. (GB 123) | V | 186 |
| *2461-PS | Official German communique of meeting of Hitler and Schuschnigg, 12 February 1938, published in Documents of German Politics, 1939, Vol. VI, Part I. (GB 132) | V | 206 |
| 2508-PS | German-Japanese Agreement against the Communist International, 25 November 1936, signed by Ribbentrop. Documents of German Politics, Vol. 4. (GB 147) | V | 242 |
| *2530-PS | Ribbentrop’s speech in Warsaw, 25 January 1939, published in Voelkischer Beobachter, 1 February 1939. (GB 36) | V | 267 |
| *2643-PS | Announcement concerning Three-Power Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan, 27 September 1940, signed by Ribbentrop for Germany. 1940 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part II, No. 41, p. 279. (USA 149) | V | 355 |
| *2786-PS | Letter from Ribbentrop to Keitel, 4 March 1938. (USA 81) | V | 419 |
| *2788-PS | Notes of conference in the Foreign Office between Ribbentrop, Konrad Henlein, K. H. Frank and others on program for Sudeten agitation, 29 March 1938. (USA 95) | V | 422 |
| *2789-PS | Letter from Konrad Henlein to Ribbentrop, 17 March 1938. (USA 94) | V | 424 |
| *2790-PS | German Foreign Office minutes of conference between Hitler, Ribbentrop, Tuca and Karmasin, 12 February 1939. (USA 110) | V | 425 |
| *2791-PS | German Foreign Office minutes of conversation between Ribbentrop and Attolico, the Italian Ambassador, 23 August 1938. (USA 86) | V | 426 |
| *2792-PS | German Foreign Office minutes of conversations between Ribbentrop and Attolico, 27 August 1938 and 2 September 1938. (USA 87) | V | 426 |
| *2796-PS | German Foreign Office notes on conversations between Hitler, Ribbentrop and von Weizsacker and the Hungarian Ministers Imredy and von Kanya, 23 August 1938. (USA 88) | V | 430 |
| 2797-PS | German Foreign Office memorandum of conversation between Ribbentrop and von Kanya, 25 August 1938. (USA 89) | V | 432 |
| *2798-PS | German Foreign Office minutes of the meeting between Hitler and President Hacha of Czechoslovakia, 15 March 1939. (USA 118; GB 5) | V | 433 |
| *2800-PS | German Foreign Office notes of a conversation with Attolico, the Italian Ambassador, 18 July 1938. (USA 85) | V | 442 |
| *2802-PS | German Foreign Office notes of conference on 13 March 1939 between Hitler and Monsignor Tiso, Prime Minister of Slovakia. (USA 117) | V | 443 |
| *2815-PS | Telegram from Ribbentrop to the German Minister in Prague, 13 March 1939. (USA 116) | V | 451 |
| *2829-PS | Affidavit of von Ribbentrop, 9 November 1945, concerning positions held by him. (USA 5) | V | 496 |
| *2853-PS | Telegram from German Foreign Office to German Legation in Prague, 24 September 1938. (USA 100) | V | 521 |
| *2854-PS | Telegram from German Foreign Office to German Legation in Prague, 17 September 1938. (USA 99) | V | 521 |
| *2855-PS | Telegram from German Foreign Office to German Legation in Prague, 16 September 1938. (USA 98) | V | 522 |
| 2856-PS | Telegram from German Foreign Office to German Legation in Prague, 24 September 1938. (USA 101) | V | 522 |
| *2858-PS | Telegram from German Foreign Office to German Legation in Prague, 19 September 1938. (USA 97) | V | 523 |
| *2896-PS | Telegram from Ribbentrop to German Ambassador in Tokyo, Ott, 10 July 1941. | (USA 155) | V |
| *2897-PS | Telegram from German Ambassador in Tokyo, Ott, to Ribbentrop, 13 July 1941. (USA 156) | V | 566 |
| *2911-PS | Notes on conversation between Ribbentrop and Oshima, 9 July 1942. (USA 157) | V | 580 |
| *2921-PS | Decree of Reich Commissar for Occupied Dutch Territories concerning confiscation of property, 4 July 1940. (GB 155) | V | 590 |
| *2929-PS | Notes on conversation between Ribbentrop and Oshima, 18 April 1943. (USA 159) | V | 603 |
| *2949-PS | Transcripts of telephone calls from Air Ministry, 11-14 March 1938. (USA 76) | V | 628 |
| *2952-PS | Memorandum, 19 July 1939, signed Doertenbach. (GB 137) | V | 655 |
| *2953-PS | Letter from Heydrich to Ribbentrop, 29 June 1939, with enclosure. (GB 136) | V | 657 |
| *2954-PS | Minutes of conversation between Ribbentrop and Oshima, 6 March 1943. (USA 158; GB 150) | V | 658 |
| *2987-PS | Entries in diary of Count Ciano. (USA 166) | V | 689 |
| 3047-PS | File notes on conference in Fuehrer’s train on 12 September 1939; report on execution of Jews in Borrisow; and entries from diary of Admiral Canaris. (USA 80) (Referred to but not offered in evidence.) | V | 766 |
| *3054-PS | “The Nazi Plan”, script of a motion picture composed of captured German film. (USA 167) | V | 801 |
| *3059-PS | German Foreign Office memorandum, 19 August 1938, on payments to Henlein’s Sudeten German Party between 1935 and 1938. (USA 96) | V | 855 |
| *3060-PS | Dispatch from German Minister in Prague to Foreign Office in Berlin about policy arrangements with Henlein, 16 March 1938. (USA 93) | V | 856 |
| *3061-PS | Supplement No. 2 to the Official Czechoslovak Report entitled “German Crimes Against Czechoslovakia” (document 998-PS). (USA 126) | V | 857 |
| *3308-PS | Affidavit by Paul Otto Gustav Schmidt, 28 November 1945. (GB 288) | V | 1100 |
| *3319-PS | Foreign Office Correspondence and reports on anti-Jewish action in foreign countries. (GB 287) | VI | 4 |
| *3358-PS | German Foreign Office circular, 31 January 1939, “The Jewish Question as a factor in German Foreign Policy in the year 1938”. (GB 158) | VI | 87 |
| 3638-PS | Memorandum of Ribbentrop, 1 October 1938, concerning his conversation with Ciano about the Polish demands made on Czechoslovakia. | VI | 400 |
| 3688-PS | Notice from the Foreign Office, 24 September 1942, concerning evacuation of Jews from Occupied Territories. | VI | 403 |
| *3817-PS | File of correspondence and reports by Dr. Haushofer on Asiatic situation. (USA 790) | VI | 752 |
| *C-2 | Examples of violations of International Law and proposed counter propaganda, issued by OKW, 1 October 1938. (USA 90) | VI | 799 |
| *C-77 | Memorandum from Chief of High Command to Navy High Command, 18 May 1941. (GB 146) | VI | 908 |
| *C-120 | Directives for Armed Forces 1939-40 for “Fall Weiss”, operation against Poland. (GB 41) | VI | 916 |
| *C-134 | Letter from Jodl enclosing memorandum on conference between German and Italian Generals on 19 January and subsequent speech by Hitler, 20 January 1941. (GB 119) | VI | 939 |
| *C-137 | Keitel’s appendix of 24 November 1938 to Hitler Order of 21 October 1938. (GB 33) | VI | 949 |
| *D-472 | Ribbentrop’s actions as Foreign Minister, from International Biographical Archives, 22 April 1943. (GB 130) | VII | 59 |
| *D-490 | Interrogation of Ribbentrop, 20 September 1945. (GB 138) | VII | 66 |
| *D-629 | Letter from Keitel to Ribbentrop, 3 April 1940. (GB 141) | VII | 99 |
| *D-636 | Extract from “Examination of Descent of SS Leaders”, concerning von Ribbentrop. (GB 131) | VII | 114 |
| D-639 | Decree of the Fuehrer concerning exercise of Governmental Authority in Netherlands, 18 May 1940. 1940 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 778. (GB 154) | VII | 115 |
| *D-656 | Extract of 29 November 1941 from Intercepted Diplomatic Messages sent by Japanese Government between 1 July and 8 December 1941. (GB 148) | VII | 160 |
| *D-657 | Extract of 8 December 1941 from Intercepted Diplomatic Messages sent by Japanese Government between 1 July and 8 December 1941. (GB 149) | VII | 163 |
| D-734 | Note of conversation between Reich Foreign Minister and Duce in presence of von Mackenson, Alfieri and Bastianini, 25 February 1943. | VII | 188 |
| *D-735 | Memorandum of conference between German Foreign Minister and Count Ciano in presence of Keitel and Marshal Cavallero, 19 December 1942. (GB 295) | VII | 190 |
| *D-736 | Notes on discussion between Fuehrer and Horthy on 17 April 1943. (GB 283) | VII | 190 |
| *D-737 | Memorandum on reception of Hungarian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister by German Foreign Minister on 29 April 1939. (GB 289) | VII | 192 |
| *D-738 | Memorandum on second conference between German Foreign Minister with Hungarian Prime and Foreign Minister on 1 May 1939. (GB 290) | VII | 193 |
| *D-740 | Minutes of conference between German Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Bastianini on 8 April 1943. (GB 297) | VII | 194 |
| D-741 | Memorandum on conference between German Foreign Minister and Ambassador Alfieri on 21 February 1943 in Berlin. (GB 296) | VII | 196 |
| *D-744-A | File of the Reichsfuehrer-SS with personal record of SS Obergruppenfuehrer Ribbentrop. (GB 294) | VII | 197 |
| *D-744-B | File of the Reichsfuehrer-SS with personal record of SS Obergruppenfuehrer Ribbentrop. (GB 294) | VII | 204 |
| *D-775 | Draft of directive, 14 June 1944, from OKW to Supreme Commander of “Luftwaffe”, regarding treatment of Allied “Terrorist”-flyers. (GB 308) | VII | 232 |
| *D-776 | Draft of directive of Chief of OKW, 15 June 1944, to German Foreign Office at Salzburg, concerning treatment of Allied “Terrorist”-flyers. (GB 309) | VII | 233 |
| *D-777 | Draft of directive, 15 June 1944, from OKW to Supreme Commander of “Luftwaffe” concerning treatment of Allied “Terrorist”-flyers. (GB 310) | VII | 234 |
| *D-778 | Notes, 18 June 1944, concerning treatment of Anglo-American “Terrorist”-flyers. (GB 311) | VII | 235 |
| *D-780 | Draft of communication from Ambassador Ritter, Salzburg, to Chief of OKW, 20 June 1944, on treatment of Allied “Terrorist”-flyers. (GB 313) | VII | 236 |
| *D-782 | Note from German Foreign Office, Salzburg, 25 June 1944, to OKW. (GB 315) | VII | 239 |
| D-784 | Note from Operation Staff of OKW signed Warlimont, 30 June 1944, concerning treatment of Allied “Terrorist”-flyers. (GB 317) | VII | 240 |
| *D-786 | Note, 5 July 1944, on “Terror”-flyers. (GB 319) | VII | 242 |
| EC-265 | German Foreign Office telegram, 1 October 1940, concerning the Jews in Occupied French Territory. | VII | 375 |
| L-74 | Letter from Ribbentrop to Churchill with covering letter addressed to Field Marshal Montgomery. | VII | 839 |
| *L-79 | Minutes of conference, 23 May 1939, “Indoctrination on the political situation and future aims”. (USA 27) | VII | 847 |
| L-202 | State Department dispatch from D. H. Buffum, American Consul at Leipzig, 21 November 1938, concerning Anti-Semitic Onslaught in Germany as seen from Leipzig. | VII | 1037 |
| *L-205 | Telegram from Kennedy to Department of State, 8 December 1938. (GB 157) | VII | 1041 |
| *M-158 | Telegram, 23 October 1939, regarding location of Nazi organizations in Madrid. (GB 285) | VIII | 51 |
| *TC-23 | Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, 29 September 1938. (GB 23) | VIII | 370 |
| *TC-24 | Treaty of non-aggression between German Reich and Kingdom of Denmark, 31 May 1939. (GB 77) | VIII | 373 |
| *TC-25 | Non-aggression Treaty between Germany and USSR and announcement of 25 September 1939 relating to it. (GB 145) | VIII | 375 |
| TC-51 | Decree establishing the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 16 March 1939. (GB 8) | VIII | 404 |
| *TC-53-A | Marginal note to decree of final incorporation of Memel with German Reich, 23 March 1939, from Documents of German Politics, Part VII, p. 552. (GB 4) | VIII | 408 |
| TC-73 | No. 37 Polish White Book. Hitler’s Reichstag speech, 20 February 1938. | VIII | 481 |
| TC-73 | No. 40 Polish White Book. Lipski and Ribbentrop, 10 September 1938. | VIII | 481 |
| TC-73 | No. 42 Polish White Book. Extracts from speech by Hitler at Sportz Palast, 26 September 1938. | VIII | 482 |
| *TC-73 | No. 44 Polish White Book. Lipski, Ribbentrop luncheon, conversation, 24 October 1938. (GB 27-A) | VIII | 483 |
| *TC-73 | No. 45 Polish White Book. Beck’s instructions to Lipski, 31 October 1938. (GB 27-B) | VIII | 484 |
| *TC-73 | No. 48 Polish White Book. Beck and Hitler conversation, 5 January 1939. (GB 34) | VIII | 486 |
| *TC-73 | No. 49 Polish White Book. Beck and Ribbentrop conversation, 6 January 1939. (GB 35) | VIII | 488 |
| *TC-73 | No. 57 Polish White Book. Hitler’s Reichstag speech, 30 January 1939. (GB 37) | VIII | 488 |
| *TC-73 | No. 61 Polish White Book. Ribbentrop and Lipski conversation, 21 March 1939. (GB 38) | VIII | 489 |
| TC-73 | No. 147 Polish White Book. Final report of former Polish Ambassador in Berlin, 10 October 1939. | VIII | 499 |
| *TC-76 | Note for Reichsminister, 26 August 1938. (GB 31) | VIII | 515 |
| Affidavit A | Affidavit of Erwin Lahousen, 21 January 1946, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 30 November and 1 December 1945. | VIII | 587 |
| Chart No. 1 | National Socialist German Workers’ Party. (2903-PS; USA 2) | VIII | 770 |