Ernst von Weizsaecker, Otto Dietrich, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Paul Schmidt, 1941
The German Foreign Minister announces the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 to the domestic and foreign press. With him are, in the front row from left: the State Secretary of the Foreign Office Ernst von Weizsaecker, Reich Press Chief Otto Dietrich, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and the Chief Interpreter of the Foreign Office Paul Schmidt.