Famous Last Words

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upward." (180) The Duke sees himself as being more powerful and influential, more of a leader, than either Hitler or Mussolini. He compares his potential leadership to that of a country’s flag- someone people will respect and admire. He truly believes he can be their new leader and puts himself on a pedestal. The Duke and Duchess posses many secrets. Findley explains how, "…an agent of Churchill’s [was]-- playing on David’s [Duke’s] drunkenness to discover how deep his treason ran." (198) The Duke has become very manipulative in his schemes and people want to know what he plans to do next. Thus, the Duke of Windsor was very manipulative and created an alliance where many secrets were kept and where the only benefit of the war and alliance was all his own.
Joachim von Ribbentrop is one of Hitler’s workers and whom Hitler has much trust in. He creates his own alliance to ensure that he will dominate the world. He does not care what he has to do to get things done his way. ...

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A very conniving man, von Ribbentrop pretends to care about others but is very much in the game for himself.
Joachim von Ribbentrop wants very much so to prevail and is willing to do whatever necessary so that he is not found out about. Ribbentrop planned many times with Isabella Loverso, but later in the novel she says she wants to leave. Ribbentrop afraid she might reveal his plans, kills her. He says, "…within two days or three at the very most, Isabella Loverso would have told Schellenberg everything there is to know. Bang. It would all be over." (263) He killed Isabellla because she was a threat to him, so he did whatever necessary to ensure she could not hurt him. Von ...

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