Extension and expansion of the Anti-Comintern Pact, 1941 (b/w photo)

Berlin, Berlin/City State, Germany In the Ambassador Hall of the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin, is held a state ceremony to welcome the representatives of countries who already joined the Anti-Comintern Pact and of the newly invited countries. The ambassador Schmidt (left beside the Head of the "Presidential Chancellery of the Fuehrer") read out the solemn declaration on the renewal of the Pact and the participation of further states. From left on the chairs below the painting: the Hungarian Prime Minister Laszlo Bardossy, the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Japanese Ambassador Oshima Hiroshi, next to him the representative of Manchukuo, the Slovak Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka, the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivan Popov and the Croatian Foreign Minister Mladen Lorkovic.