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“I have a question . . . which I would like very much to clear up.”
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop, 1893–1946. German Foreign Minister, 1938–1945. Autograph Letter Signed, J v Ribbentrop, one page, 8” x 11”, [no place, no date].
A confidant of Adolf Hitler, Ribbentrop served as Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister from 1938 to the end of World War II. Ribbentrop, who was fluent in English, writes here to an unnamed recipient to ask for a further meeting. In full: “Referring to our yesterdays [sic] conversation could I have a word with you this morning? I have a question in this connection, which I would like very much to clear up.”
It is impossible to know, of course, since this letter is undated, but it could relate to the time of Ribbentrop’s imprisonment at Nuremburg during the War Crimes Trials following World War II.
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