Joachim von Ribbentrop was executed in Nuremberg.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
Multiple independent sources (Britannica, Time-based History Today and Nuremberg museum verdicts, Wikipedia, Washington Post, eyewitness accounts) state that Joachim von Ribbentrop was sentenced to death and hanged in the Nuremberg Prison gymnasium on October 16, 1946. The claim's intended referent is the Nuremberg executions, and the extraction correctly renders the post's 'Jachim von Ribbentrop ...
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… contradictory, um, you know, and, uh, Franz Rockemacher, who, again, he was the he was the Reich Foreign Ministry liaison in the Balkans, he was regularly subordinate to the chief diplomat in theater, Martin Luther, who, in turn, was really subordinate to Jachim von Ribbentrop, who was, you know, executed in Nuremberg, but he was a civilian, you know. So, I mean, that further confuses things, too, because now, now you're implicating, uh, you know, a civilian chain of command into the, into the Army, and then saying that, um, Eichmann somehow had authority over both. …
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Supports. Britannica states that ten defendants, including Joachim von Ribbentrop, were hanged on October 16, 1946, after being sentenced to death.[2]
Supports. The Nuremberg museum verdicts page lists Ribbentrop's sentence as death by hanging and states the sentences were executed in the old gymnasium of Nuremberg Prison on October 16, 1946.[3]
Supports. Historical accounts including History Today and an eyewitness-based account describe Ribbentrop being hanged at Nuremberg in the early hours of October 16, 1946.[4][5][6]
Supports. The Washington Post reports that Ribbentrop was among the eleven men sentenced to death by hanging, and that ten were hanged after the proceeding.[1]
Context. Ribbentrop was a civilian foreign minister rather than a military figure, as the post notes, but this does not bear on whether he was executed in Nuremberg.
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- 1Eighty years ago in Nuremberg, top Nazis faced justicewashingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 2Nuremberg trials | Summary, Significance, Defendants ...britannica.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Verdicts of th IMT | Memorium Nuremberg Trials - nuernberg.demuseums.nuernberg.de · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Nazis Executed at Nuremberg - History Todayhistorytoday.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5The Sentencing and Execution of Nazi War Criminals, 1946eyewitnesstohistory.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Description of the Executions of the Major War Criminalsfamous-trials.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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