In Oct 1941 Himmler spent a weeklong hunting party at Schönhof, the hunting lodge of Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Italian foreign minister, Count Ciano was the guest of honor.On Oct 26th the party bagged 2,400 pheasants, 260 hares, 20 crows and one roebuck." Count Ciano alone shot 620 pheasants" Felix Kersten Himmler´s masseur writes, "he´s the champion. Ribbentrop shot 410 pheasants, Himmler only 95."

What a massacre...

Himmler about Ciano´s success " I wish the Italians in Africa had been such good shots..."

From Masters of death by Richard Rhodes

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