Your thinking of "mad eyes" Hess
Von Ribbentrop skated the thin ice of genius and shiteness; mostly shiteness. His jewel in the crown lay with the molotov-ribbentrop pact; which allowed the Germans to march into Poland in the first instance without fearing a two front campaign,as the action inevitably led to a declaration of war from Britain and France due to the treaties in place.
As ambassador to Britain leading up to the war he was generally autistic and created a number of enemies leading to his anglophobia; if anything he spent a large amount of his time turning the anti communist Anti-Comintern Pact against Britain. /Fact Fans
He also didn't like Jews whcih caught up with him in the end in that there Nuremburg.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 20:52, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

From what I remember, he was also a caricature of a typical Nazi.
He would often exaggerate his persona and try to put on a big front to impress people.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 21:22, Reply)