Joachim von Ribbentrop frequented the Rathskeller German bar in the Flack Block, which still stands at the corner of Vancouver's Hastings and Cambie streets. The man who was the diplomatic face of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany called his time living in Vancouver more than a century ago among the best of his life. Joachim von Ribbentrop began that life in 1893 in Wesel, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire. He left it at the end of a hangman’s noose after being convicted at Nuremberg for war crimes, crimes against humanity for his part in The Holocaust, crimes against peace and planning...