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We have already identified 11 knights/ladies of the Garter that were connected with the Nazi regime.Firestarter said:So the previous shows another 1 (Wilhelmina) and the following a second (Juliana) Lady of the Garter involved with the Hitler regime...So far we have identified EIGHT Knights of the Garter (a British Order limited to 24 Knights at any one time) with close ties to Hitler during the run-up to World War II.
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Now we will introduce a NINTH (out of 24)….!
The 12th Nazi KG named in this thread is none other than Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, when he was Governor-General of Canada, who was associated with the teenage Joachim von Ribbentrop!
In 1932, negotiations to make Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany took place at the home of Joachim von Ribbentrop.
Von Ribbentrop continued his remarkable career as head of Germany's foreign intelligence service and in 1936 was selected by Hitler as ambassador to the UK and in 1938 became Germany’s Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1938.
Why did the anglophile Hitler select Von Ribbentrop for these important jobs?!?
In 1910, Von Ribbentrop aged 17 years, arrived in Canada with his older brother Lothar.
Joachim von Ribbentrop became quite popular in Ottawa high society where he settled.
The centre of Ottawa high society at the time was Rideau Hall, the residence of Canada’s Governor General, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (KG in 1867).
Prince Arthur was the son of Queen Victoria, brother of (the later deposed) "Nazi" King Edward VII (KG in 1911), and Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England from 1901 to 1939.
Von Ribbentrop was introduced to Prince Arthur and his wife Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia by Arthur Fitzpatrick, son of Canada’s Chief Justice, Sir Charles Fitzpatrick.
Von Ribbentrop was quickly invited to Rideau Hall for dinner at least twice, where he talked to the Princess in German.
After the Great War (WW I) broke out, in August 1914 Von Ribbentrop was forced to leave Ottawa, never to return to Canada: https://www.historicalsocietyottawa...-from-the-very-famous-to-the-lesser-known/rib
(https://archive.is/BdFNf)
Even before going to Canada, Von Ribbentrop lived in London.
In 1914, Von Ribbentrop left Canada, temporary moving from the neutral USA to Rotterdam on the Holland-America line.
In 1918, 1st Lieutenant Von Ribbentrop was stationed in Istanbul, Turkey, where he became a friend of Franz von Papen (before or after the genocidal Young Turks resigned), who in 1933 played a major part in bringing Hitler to power (with the assistance of Von Ribbentrop). Von Papen was awarded the Knight Magistral Grand Cross of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in April 1933 for helping Hitler to become Fuhrer.
For his father-in-law's champagne firm, Von Ribbentrop did business with Jewish bankers and organised the Impegroma Importing Company with Jewish financing.
Hitler selected Von Ribbentrop for UK ambassador because "he knows quite a lot of important people in England" to forge an Anglo-German alliance.
Von Ribbentrop in London conspired with Edward VIII; Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman; and British foreign minister Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (KG 1931, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter from 1943 to 1959).
See British PM Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, Halifax, and Count Ciano at the Opera of Rome, January 1939.
Ironically as ambassador Von Ribbentrop grew ever more disgusted with English good manners, openly showing his contempt, which worsened his relations with the British Foreign Office.
So the anglophile Hitler sidelined Von Ribbentrop.
Instead of forging an alliance with Britain, as Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop wanted to deal with Joseph Stalin, negotiating the Russian-German non-aggression pact.
When Hitler decided to break the pact, Von Ribbentrop was opposed to the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941:
.A German attack on Russia would only give a lift to English morale. It would be evaluated there as German doubt of the success of our war against England. We would in this fashion not only admit that the war would still last a long time, but we could in this way actually lengthen instead of shorten it.
On 14 June 1945, after Germany's surrender, Von Ribbentrop was arrested in Hamburg. He was found with a letter addressed to the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill criticising British foreign policy for anti-German sentiments, and blaming Britain for the break-up of Germany and the advancement of Communism into central Europe.
At his show trial by the Allies in Nuremberg after the war, Von Ribbentrop denied knowing anything of the "Holocaust".
He was the first Nazi to be executed by hanging on 16 October 1946 for war crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop










