g to suppress the gasoline in his
veins, the endless ache of his affliction, and the unnatural swelling
of the diaphragm that made it difficult to remain still and digest the
excrement before him.

COL. AMEN: You speak English pretty well.

VON RIBBENTROP: I spoke it well in the past and I think I speak it
passably well today.

Col. Amen: Almost as well as you speak German?

VON RIBBENTROP: No, I would not say that, but in the past I spoke it
nearly as well as German, although I have naturally forgotten a great
deal in the course of the years and now it is more difficult for me.

COL. AMEN: Do you know what is meant by a 'yes man' in English?

VON RIBBENTROP: A 'yes man'---per se. A man who says yes even when he
himself..... It is somewhat difficult to define. In any case I do not
know what you mean by it in English. In German I should define him as
a man who obeys orders and is obedient and loyal.

COL AMEN: As a matter of fact, you were a 'yes man' for Hitler, isn't
that correct?

VON RIBBENTROP: I was always loyal to Hitler, carried through his
orders, differed frequently in opinion from him, repeatedly tendered my
resignation. But when Hitler gave an order, I always carried out his
instructions in accordance with the principles of our authoritarian
state.

At the conclusion of this there was a pause, then the following.

VON RIBBENTROP: Without ever taking any steps or doing anything myself
in the SS, yes, that is correct.

SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Just look. It is a document.....GB-294. The
correspondence is 744B. That is your application with all the
particulars. I just want to ask you one or two things about it. You
asked to join, did you not, the 'Totemkopf', the Death's-Head division
of the SS?

VON RIBBENTROP: No, that cannot be true.

SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Don't you remember getting a special
Death's-Head ring and dagger from Hitler for your services? Don't you?

VON RIBBENTROP: No, I do not remember. I never belonged to a
Death's-Head Division.

SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: And the ring, too. Here is a letter dated the
5 November 1935, to the Personnel Office of the Reichsfurher-SS: "In
reply to your question, I have to inform you that Brigadefurher von
Ribbentrop's ring size is 17....." Do you remember getting that?

VON RIBBENTROP: .....I do not remember precisely. No doubt it is true.

And that was all. The screen then showed an ol