Nazi foreign minister planned to own Cornwall (the English county) as his retirement home

[Turborama]

Source: The Observer (UK)

Vanessa Thorpe
The Observer, Sunday October 03 2010

A startling new art exhibition claims to reveal that Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler's foreign minister, had private plans for a stylish retirement in Cornwall following the planned German invasion of Britain.

The exhibition, and a companion book, published last week, are the culmination of three years of research by the Cornish artist Andrew Lanyon. It claims that Ribbentrop, who previously served as the Nazis' ambassador to Britain, had set his heart on a home on St Michael's Mount, one of the most picturesque locations in Britain.

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"I have interviewed people who remember Ribbentrop's visits and the period in the 1930s when he stayed with Colonel Edward Bolitho, the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, in Trengwainton, his Cornish home," said Lanyon. "He told Bolitho he wanted to live in St Ives and that Hitler had agreed to give him Cornwall."

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"I remember my family gardener always told me that Ribbentrop wanted Cornwall," said Lanyon, "and now I believe him. My grandfather on my mother's side played golf with him and felt so dirty afterwards that he joined Bomber Command."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/03/nazi-foreign-minister-planned-cornwall-retirement

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Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister, had designs on Cornwall

[sharesunited]

1. And Hans Landa was counting on the Congressional Medal of Honor.

[hyphenate]

2. Yes, I like that version of the ending of WWII

far more than our own end to it. More satisfactory. :)

[lutherj]

3. Reality sucks, doesn't it Heir Ribbentrop?

[Sherman A1]

4. I have designs on winning Powerball as well, but I don't

think it's going to happen.

[leveymg]

5. With the lottery, you don't need to kill all the other contestants in order to win.

Fortunately.

[Enthusiast]

6. The Nazis weren't so

all that different than the greedy assholes behind the power in this country today. Just sayin'.

[Javaman]

8. since prescott bush was involved in their financing..

they were one and the same.

[Enthusiast]

9. Zactly.

And, before and during WWII, the Nazis had many deep cover intelligence assets established in the U.S.

I see no reason to assume that these undiscovered assets, or their descendants, do not continue to operate on the behalf of the cause of fascism.

[Javaman]

7. A couple of years back I was reading a first hand account of WWII

by a US soldier who fought in Europe (the name of the book escapes me). In one instance, the US soldier had helped capture a nazi officer. During a down time while interrogating the nazi, the nazi officer got into a conversation with the soldier. The US soldier was from Connecticut. "ahh, I see", said the nazi officer, "I was to command that area of the US when we invaded you".

Chilling.

[Xithras]

10. Lol, that Nazi officer was screwing with him.

While Hitler toyed with the idea of invading America in the 1920's, he gave up on that idea when he realized how big the U.S. was.

Hitlers actual plan for the United States was that it would eventually become a nation similar to Vichy France...independent, but subjugated. Germany never had any serious plans on invading the United States. The plan was to economically and socially isolate the United States, and then conduct an air war to bomb it mercilessly. Their thinking was that the economic implosion caused by the loss of trade, combined with the relentless bombing, would eventually cause the Americans to give up. They saw this as a real possibility, because it could be sold as the American people as a "political realignment" more than a "surrender". The United States would remain a nation governed by its people, just operating under a modified set of rules and international relations codified and dominated by Germany. With nearly a third of Americans (at the time) having at least SOME German ancestry anyway, they thought it would be an easy sell.

[Sherman A1]

11. The US would not have been invaded

The Germans did not have the wherewithal to invade England despite some serious efforts & plans. They lacked the blue water Navy and the ability to project power because of it.

[Javaman]

12. The point is...

not that was a possibility of us being invaded but the nazi's were so freaking delusional to believe so.

[Sherman A1]

13. I understood the point

and perhaps the individual was deluded, living in a fantasy world or perhaps as suggested they were simply screwing with the interrogator.