On August 24, 1939, the British writer Evelyn Waugh wrote in his diary (I'm quoting from memory): "Russia and Germany have signed a cooperation pact. War now inevitable. Went for a stroll.'" Waugh ...

On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a nonaggression treaty in Moscow, paving the way for the Nazi and Soviet invasions of Poland the following month and the beginning of World ...

Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, is the hard-boiled diplomatist of a conquering power. But as a historian he is a regular Fritz Kuhn. Last week he let himself go on the ...

Eighty years ago, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed not to attack each other. Their pact divided central and eastern Europe into ‘spheres of interest’ and a week later, Germany invaded Poland ...

Rudolf von Ribbentrop, an SS officer who shortly before the end of World War II in Europe accompanied his father, Joachim — Nazi Germany’s foreign minister — on a visit to a deluded Adolf Hitler in ...

24 August 1939: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact Moscow, August 23 Herr von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, lost no time in getting down to business on his first ...

Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Ribbentrop broke down today under the cross examination of French prosecutor Edgar Faure at the International Military Tribunal and admitted participating in anti-Jewish ...