German Leadership

Ribbentrop and Hess

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Joachim von Ribbentrop (left), was Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945. Rudolf Hess (right), was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess served in that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II.