Rudolf von Ribbentrop (11 May 1921 – 20 May 2019)[1] was a German Waffen-SS officer who served and was decorated in World War II, and later became a wine merchant.

His father was appointed as German Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1936 and was accompanied to London by Rudolf.

[2] On 1 September 1939, when the Second World War started, Ribbentrop joined as a private soldier in the SS-Infantry Regiment Deutschland, with which he served during the Western Campaign, receiving the Iron Cross second class.

[4] On 1 August he was transferred to the newly formed SS Division Hitlerjugend as a training officer and company commander.

While in custody, he was accused of shooting two Canadian prisoners of war, one of them fatally, during an interrogation in France.