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Ribbentrop.
The Economist (US)
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November 21, 1992
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RIBBENTROP. By Michael Bloch. Bantam Press; 540 pages; Pounds20. To be published in America by Crown
HE sad story of Joachim von Ribbentrop--"Herr Brickendrop", as he was dubbed by one British cartoonist, David Low, when Ribbentrop was German ambassador to London in 1936 and 1937--can tell the British something about themselves. Making himself ridiculous with his vanity, pomposity and displays of Nazi zeal, he became a London joke and earned the reputation of an oaf. Making a joke of Ribbentrop was congenial to the English habit; it also helped to divert Britons from the ...
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