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Parent topics

• Diplomacy (international relations) [r]: The process of negotiations, among nations, usually by accredited representatives of a government. While the details of the negotiations may not be public information, the fact of the diplomatic negotiations is official and acknowledged ^[e]
• International law [r]: The formal conduct of interactions between nation-states, both at the national level and on behalf of their citizens; generally accepted as first formalized by Hugo Grotius. ^[e] The Foreign Office was the sole Reich agency authorized to offer opinions on international law

Subtopics

Foreign Ministers

• Constantin von Neurath [r]: (1873-1956) German career diplomat, foreign minister 1932 under Franz von Papen 1932, continued under Nazis until expansionist policy of 1938; took role in Czech occupation ^[e]
• Joachim von Ribbentrop [r]: Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany, of lessened importance when the extension of national policies became military rather than diplomatic; tried and executed, principally for planning war, by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) ^[e]

Officials

• Erich Albrecht [r]: German diplomat who headed the Law Department of the Reich Foreign Office (1943-1945) ^[e]
• Felix Benzler [r]: Reich Foreign Office representative in German-occupied Serbia ^[e]
• Ernst Wilhelm Bohle [r]: (1903-1960) Gauleiter of the Ausland (foreign) Organization of the Nazi Party (1933 - 1945); State Secretary for the Foreign Organization in the Reich Foreign Office (1937-1941); SS- Obergruppenfuehrer; defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Otto von Erdmannsdorf [r]: German Minister to Hungary (1937-1941); Ministerial Director and Deputy to the Chief of the Political Department of the Reich Foreign Office (1941-1943); Nazi Party member; defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Fritz Gebhard von Hahn [r]: Legislative Secretary in the Reich Foreign Office and assistant to Franz Rademacher ^[e]
• Andor Hencke [r]: Career German diplomat who organized the intelligence service of the Reich Foreign Office; Under State Secretary who headed the Political Department (1943-1945) ^[e]
• Wilhelm Keppler [r]: State Secretary for Special Assignments, Reich Foreign Office (1939-1945); war materials expert and economic adviser to Adolf Hitler (1932-1938); defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Martin Luther [r]: Protege of Joachim von Ribbentrop, who met him when he was a furniture mover; rose to Undersecretary of the Reich Foreign Office; reperesentative at Wannsee Conference; purged in 1943 when he tried to replace Ribbentrop ^[e]
• Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland [r]: State Secretary in the Reich Foreign Office, member of the personal staff of Joachim von Ribbentrop; defense witness at Trial of the Major War Criminals and defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Franz Rademacher [r]: Head of the Jewish Desk of the Reich Foreign Office; Nazi Party member since 1933 ^[e]
• Karl Ritter [r]: German Ambassador to Brazil (1937-1938); Nazi Party member; Ambassador for Special Assignments, Reich Foreign Office (1939-1945); Liaison from Foreign Minister to Chief of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Ernst Woermann [r]: (1888-1979) Reich Foreign Office Ministerial Director and Chief of the Political Division (1938-1943) who received Einsatzgruppen reports; German Ambassador to Nanking (1943-1945); defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Edmund Veesenmayer [r]: SS-Brigadefuehrer attached, 1939-1944, Reich Foreign Office; Minister to Hungary (1944-1945); defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
• Ernst von Weizsaecker [r]: German diplomat from 1920 who rose to State Secretary of the German Foreign Office (1938 to 1943) and then Ambassador to the Holy See; imprisoned by the Ministries Case (NMT) after WWII but sentence commuted ^[e]
• Emil Wiehl [r]: German diplomat who headed the Trade (economic) Department of the Reich Foreign Office (1943-1945) ^[e]

History

• Norbert Frei [r]: German academic historian working in German and European history, with a special interest in the continuation of Nazi influence ^[e]