RIBBENTROP'S CASTLE

Otaki Mail, 22 December 1939, Page 4

RIBBENTROP'S CASTLE

OWNER’S MYSTERIOUS DEATH LONDON, Nov. 18. I learn that von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, has now acquired outright the estate and castle at Fuschl, near Salzburg, which he was occupying during the past summer, writes a special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. It was here that he received Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, in the last days of July when there were discussions between Italy and Germany as to the wisdom of Herr Hitler’s decision to invade Poland. These properties pass to von Ribbentrop in curious circumstances. Their owner was the Austrian Legitimist leader, Count Gustav Remitz. Count Remitz has been a prisoner in the infamous concentration camp at Dachau for many months past, and information has now become available that he has died as the result of torture administered to him in that camp. The whole of his properties have been expropriated by the Gestapo for the benefit of von Ribbentrop, including all contents of the castle. This expropriation order has covered even the smallest trinkets left in the castle. The widow of Count Remitz, with a mumber of children of the marriage, is left destitute. She has not been permitted to collect any of the small personal possessions which remained in the castle, since- it seems that the Foreign Minister was not prepared to hand any of these over.