Speech by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop regarding the attack on the Soviet...

German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (2-R) reads a note to the Soviet government, in which there is criticism of the hostile attitude towards Germany and Russian troop concentrations on the eastern German border, to the domestic and international press in the Federal Council Chamber at the Foreign Office in the early morning hours in Berlin, Germany, 22 June 1941. At the same time, the first German attacks on the Soviet Union had already begun. State Secretary of the Foreign Office Ernst von Weizsaecker (L) and government spokesman Otto Dietrich sit next to him (2-L)