Posted on 10/04/2010 11:26:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
One of Hitler's most senior Nazis set his heart on a stylish retirement in Cornwall following Germany's invasion of Britain, new research reveals.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Fuhrer's foreign minister, planned to live in St Michael's Mount, one of the most beautiful locations in the country.
He had served as the Nazi ambassador to Britain in the late 30s and had his eye on the picturesque tidal island, which is 400 yards offshore, after spending a week in Cornwall in 1937. He also plotted to keep Tregenna Castle, near St Ives, as a holiday home once the Nazis had achieved world domination.
Von Ribbentrop's love affair with Cornwall tallies with stories that the Luftwaffe was ordered to avoid bombing particular sections of the Cornish coast.
He was one of Hitler's closest henchmen and was notorious for his arrogance when serving in London. He was eventually hanged as a war criminal following the Nuremburg Trials.
His designs on Cornwall emerged after local artist Andrew Lanyon spent three years researching the Nazi's links with the county.
Drawing on local testimony and contemporary reports, he said Von Ribbentrop had expressed a desire to move there after the war.
He said: 'In one visit, he was here for about five days in 1937. He brought his aides with him and went to St Ives.
'He said how much he enjoyed Cornwall. He said: "You are going to be invaded, you need an air raid shelter." 'He said Hitler had promised him the whole of Cornwall, and when he saw Tregenna Castle he wanted to live there. But when he saw St Michael's Mount he thought that was better - I suspect he wanted Tregenna Castle as his holiday home, he was that arrogant.
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Fairly delusional kleptocrats and murderers. Still they might have kept the Islamics out and improved British Rail.
And Obama probably has big vacation plans for his 2nd term in office.
Ribbentrop was an Anglophile and had spent a lot of time in Britain. He served there as ambassador and tried to convince Hitler that Britain could be converted into an ally if allowed to keep their colonies. If Churchill had not been convinced that Roosevelt would rush to his aid, who knows what kind of “deal” they might have made.
I don’t think any “deal” between Hitler and England was in the cards. Not even close.
After hearing some of von Ribbentrop’s testimony at the Nuremberg Trials, Göring remarked that von Ribbentrop deserved to be hung for stupidity.
More evidence that the Nazis were, in addition to ideological monsters, a group of pretty banal thugs and criminals. Even the allegedly aristocratic von Ribbentrop was fairly crass—planning out which British estate to steal. Whether it was art or land or business opportunities, they spent a huge amount of time doing things like this.
Goering was one of the biggest imbeciles the Nazis had. He allowed British air power to survive.
Maybe in 1934, but once it became clear that England would not ally with Germany around the 1936-37 timeframe, like a lover spurned, he became the biggest Anglophobe in Hitler's inner circle.
As I said, Churchill knew Roosevelt was going to save him. Without that ace in the hole, who knows. As the saying goes, the winners write the history books.
I wonder in the mid-30s how many in Britain would have supported a deal with Hitler.
Remember, at that time, Bolshevism was the bigger concern than the Nazis, Churchill was practically the only one who was speaking out against Hitler, and he was ridiculed for it, especially within his own party.
He was talking about the stupid things that von Ribbentrop said at the trial.
Hard to fault his taste, unless he had Speer redisign the castle and Goering select the artwork.
Yes, sort of like the current administration in Washington DC.
He could have stayed at Fawlty Towers. Tourquay is in Cornwall. Don’t mention the war.
Maybe he also liked Cornish pasties.
And, rename it "Michelle's Garden Plot."
Maybe the worst that Molotov got was a tongue-lashing from Harry S. Truman (over the Soviets' failure to keep the commitments they made at Yalta).
I remember, in Schindler’s List that Amon behaved just like some medieval aristocrat overseeing his peasants. That’s the true goal of lefitst filth, to live like the lords/aristocrats they’ll never be. They only know how to steal, because to discipline themselves to work to make that lifestyle from themselves.
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