Note 17
From Joachim von Ribbentrop by Joachim C. Fest— See further Notes

Rauschning, Voice of Destruction; also Picker, Tischgesprache, entry for 14th May 1942. In a remark on 6th July 1942 Hitler emphasized.

'Before Ribbentrop's time the Foreign Office in Germany had been a real dumping ground for the intelligentsia' (Tischgesprache).