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Saturday, December 9, 2023

Rudolf von Ribbentrop with His Visiting Father


This picture was taken in May 1940 in Artois, France, during the German offensive in the West. SS-Sturmman Rudolf von Ribbentrop is facing away from the camera. He is talking to his father who is sitting in the car and smiling. At that time, the stubborn young Ribbentrop joined the 11.Kompanie / SS-Infanterie-Regiment "Deutschland" / SS-Verfügungstruppe and participated in the French campaign. Previously, on the night of 9 May 1940, in order to join the war and postponed the course at the officer candidate school in Braunschweig, he called his father. His father replied: "If you want to join the war, I naturally agree with your decision." When his father’s intervention with Himmler failed to change his status, Rudolf simply called a taxi and took off for the front to find his regiment, which he did on May 10-11, 1940, just as the attack in the West was launched!

Source :
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7077471/Joachim-Von-Ribbentrops-son-shares-unseen-photos-family-gatherings-Hitler.html
http://loveread.me/read_book.php?id=69746&p=165
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/68385806

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