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Len Deighton, in his book Blood, Tears and Folly, gave an account of the Bismarck episode. He suggests Rodney was popping rivets and suffering other damage from the concussion of her own fire. He definitely gives the impression that it was impeding her ability to fight. Rodney was on her way to Amer...

Ribbentrop took part in this visit. It is definitely him. If you look in David Mearns' book "Hood and Bismarck", there is a larger version of the picture. It is clearly Ribbentrop.

The man third from right in the leather coat is Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister. I believe the officer second from the left behind Lütjens is SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche, Hitler's SS Adjutant.