Ribbentrop was a defendant at the Nuremberg Trials. He was charged with crimes against peace, deliberately planning a war of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Prosecutors presented evidence that Ribbentrop actively planned German aggression and to deport Jews to death camps. He also advocated executing American and British airmen shot down over Germany. The latter two charges carried the penalty of death by hanging.The Allies' International Military Tribunal found him guilty on all counts. But even in prison, Ribbentrop remained loyal to Hitler: "Even with all I know, if in this cell Hitler should come to me and say 'Do this!', I would still do it."[302]During trial, Ribbentrop unsuccessfully sought to deny his role in the war. For example, during his cross-examination, British Prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe brought up claims that Ribbentrop had threatened Czechoslovak President Emil Hcha with "aggressive action": Maxwell-Fyfe: What further pressure c ould you put on the head of a country beyond threatening him that your Army would march in, in overwhelming strength, and your air force would bomb his capital? Ribbentrop: War, for instance.[303]Gustave Gilbert, an American Army psychologist, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders who stood trial. Among other tests, he administered a German version of the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ test. Joachim von Ribbentrop scored 129, the 10th highest among the Nazi leaders tested. Yet at one point during trial, a U.S. Army interpreter asked Baron Ernst von Weizscker how Hitler could have made him a high official. Weizscker responded "Hitler never noticed Ribbentrop's babbling because Hitler always did all the talking."
[304]Ribbentrop was the first politician to be hanged on 16 October 1946 (Gring having committed suicide before his own hanging). He was escorted up the 13 steps to the waiting noose and asked if he had any final words. He calmly said: "God protect Germany. God have mercy on my soul. My final wish is that Germany should recover her unity and that, for the sake of peace, there should be understanding between East and West." As the hood was placed over his head, Ribbentrop added: "I wish peace to the world." After a slight pause the executioner pulled the lever, releasing the trap door. Ribbentrop's neck snapped; he died instantly. But he was not formally pronounced dead for seventeen minutes. Pro-Nazi sympathisers have since seized upon this interval to construct medically nonsensical statements such as "The hangman botched the execution and the rope throttled the former foreign minister for twenty minutes before he expired."[305]In 1953, Ribbentrop's memoirs, Zwischen Lond on und Moskau (Between London and Moscow), were published.Portrayal in popular cultureJoachim von Ribbentrop has been portrayed by the following actors in film, television and theater productions;[306] Henry Daniell in the 1943 United States propaganda film Mission to Moscow Graham Chapman (as "Ron Vibbentrop") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant Henryk Borowski in the 1971 Polish film Epilogue at Nrnberg Miodrag Radovanovic in the 1971 Yugoslavian television production Nirnberski epilog Geoffrey Toone in the 1973 British television production The Death of Adolf Hitler[307] Robert Hardy in the 1974 television production The Gathering Storm Kosti Klemel in the 1978 Finnish television production Sodan ja rauhan miehet Demeter Bitenc in the 1979
Yugoslavian television production Slom Anton Diffring in the 1983 United States television production The Winds of War Hans-Dieter Asner in the 1985 television production Mussolini and I Richard Kane in the 1985 US/Yugoslavian television production Mussolini: The Untold Story John Woodvine in the 1989 British television production Countdown to War Wolf Kahler in the 1993 Merchant-Ivory film The Remains of the Day Benot Girard in the 2000 Canadian/U.S. TV production Nuremberg Ivaylo Geraskov in the 2006 British television docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial Edward Baker-Duly in the 2010 BBC Wales/Masterpiece TV production Upstairs, DownstairsRibbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley (Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.Ribbentrop appears in Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel T he Remains of the Day (ISBN 0-679-73172-5) in which he is a frequent guest at Darlington Hall.Ribbentrop is also mentioned in the movie, The King's Speech, for sending the future British king's fiance 17 carnations a day.
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