Notes on conversations with Ambassador Attolico (Italy) on the prospects of a German-Czech conflict, and Mussolini's request to be notified about any German action

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Joachim Ribbentrop, von (Minister for Foreign Affairs (1938-45))

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)

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  • Born: 1893-04-30 (Wesel)
  • Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: diplomat; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Schutzstaffel; Travellers Club
  • Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
  • Military rank: Oberleutnant

Foreign Office/Ministry of Foreign Affairs (German)

Date: 18 July 1938

Literal Title: Confidential.

Defendant: Joachim Ribbentrop, von

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-2792

Citation: IMT (page 2340)

HLSL Item No.: 451902

Notes:Another copy of PS 2792 had been entered as US exhibit 87; this copy was used with the same exhibit number.

Trial Issue

Wars of aggression

Document Summary

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PS-2792: Photostatic copy of record re Mussolini's attitude in the Munich days

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PS-2792: Memorandum by Ribbentrop, 27 August and 2 September 1938, on a discussion with attolico: Mussolini again requests notification in case of German action against Czechoslovakia

R.M. 251.
Ambassador Attolico paid me a visit today at 12 o'clock to communicate the following:
He had received another written instruction from Mussolini asking that Germany communicate in time the probable date of action against Czechoslovakia. Mussolini asked for such notification, as Mr. Attolico assured me, in order "to be able to take in due time the necessary measures on the French frontier."
Berlin, 27 August 1938 [Initialed] R [Ribbentrop]
426
2792-PS
N.B. I replied to ambassador Attolico, just as on his former demarche, that I could not impart any date to him, that, however, in any case Mussolini would be' the first one to be informed of any decision.
Berlin, 2 September 1938 '
[See also Document No. 2800-PS]