Hess, Hitler and Churchill
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Profs W. Eisenmenger and W. Spann, ‘Zusammenfassung der Befunde’; cited W.R. Hess, Mord, p. 215 [RETURN TO CH 1]
Prof. J.H. Cameron, op. cit., ref. 17 above [RETURN TO CH 1]
Cited W. Schwarzwäller, p. 1 [RETURN TO CH 1]
Document examiner’s statement, 26 Aug. 1987; Special Investigation Branch RMP BAOR 53052/7, Final Report, pp. 15–17 [RETURN TO CH 1]
Profs W. Eisenmenger and W. Spann, Zusammenfassung, op. cit., ref. 19 above [RETURN TO CH 1]
Profs W. Eisenmenger and W. Spann to author, 17 Sept. 1990 [RETURN TO CH 1]
Obituary Prof. David Bowen, The Daily Telegraph, 13 Apr. 2011 [RETURN TO CH 1]
W.R. Hess, Mord, pp. 97, 101–3; W.R. Hess obtained ‘the information personally by mouth from an official of the Israeli [Secret] Service on Tuesday 18 August 1987 at 08.00 South African Time. I had known this officer professionally and personally for four years.’ He was told that the two SAS men were already in Spandau prison on the night of Saturday/Sunday, 15/16 August 1987, and the US CIA gave approval for their murder mission on Monday 17th. However, the witness statements from the British Military Police investigation show there were no SAS or indeed any unauthorised persons within Spandau prison grounds at these dates. [RETURN TO CH 1]
Chapter 2: The big question
R.J. Aldrich, p. 6 [RETURN TO CH 2]
See p. 224–5, 344–5 below [RETURN TO CH 2]
Chapter 3: Hess
Rudolf Hess Service Record, Berlin Document Center [RETURN TO CH 3]
I. Hess, Gefangener, p. 29. The poem ‘Before Verdun’ is given in full in author’s translation in P. Padfield, Hess: Disciple, p. 8 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to F. & K. Hess (father and mother), 10 Aug. 1917; W.R. Hess, Briefe, p. 204 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to F. & K. Hess, 6, 11 Oct. 1918, ibid., pp. 222–3 [RETURN TO CH 3]
See N. Goodrick-Clarke, pp. 144 ff [RETURN TO CH 3]
Testimony of Alfred Leitgen, 3 Dec. 1965; Inst. für Zeitgeschichte, Akz 4501/70, ZS 262, f. 99 [RETURN TO CH 3]
I. Hess, Gefangener, p. 19 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to K. & F. Hess, 17 June 1920; W.R. Hess, Briefe, p. 261 [RETURN TO CH 3]
‘Interview with Professor Karl Haushofer’, 28 Sept. 1945, p. 2; Office of Strategic Services, Washington; US National Archives RG 226, E 19, Box 315, XL.22853 [RETURN TO CH 3]
I. Hess, Gefangener, pp. 24–5 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to K. Hess (mother), 12 May 1924; W.R. Hess, Briefe, p. 322 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to Ilse Pröhl, 18 May 1924; ibid., p. 326 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to K. Hess, 16 May 1924; ibid., pp. 323–4 [RETURN TO CH 3]
E. Hanfstaengl, p. 165 [RETURN TO CH 3]
Interrogation of Karl Haushofer, 5 Oct. 1945, p. 6; IWM FO 645, Box 157 [RETURN TO CH 3]
Ibid., p. 5 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to K. Haushofer, 11 June 1924; W.R. Hess, Briefe, pp. 334–5 [RETURN TO CH 3]
A. Hitler, p. 772 [RETURN TO CH 3]
R. Hess to Ilse Pröhl, 29 June 1924; W.R. Hess, Briefe, p. 342 [RETURN TO CH 3]
See A. Bahar, W. Kugel [RETURN TO CH 3]
See von Pfeffer to Dr Bennecke, 21 Apr. 1963; Inst. für Zeitgeschichte, Akz. 4653/71, ZS 177, f. 069 [RETURN TO CH 3]
N-S Jahrbuch, 1939, p. 189 [RETURN TO CH 3]
Testimony of Alfred Leitgen, 19 Dec. 1952; Inst. für Zeitgeschichte, 743/52 ZS 262, p. 2, f. 13 [RETURN TO CH 3]
Ibid., 1 Apr. 1952, p. 6, f. 10 [RETURN TO CH 3]
Ibid., 19 Dec. 1952, op. cit. ref. 23 above [RETURN TO CH 3]
Chapter 4: The Jewish question
See R.G.L. Waite, pp. 152 ff, 442–5 [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Speer, p. 353 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See R.G.L. Waite, pp. 152 ff [RETURN TO CH 4]
Cited ibid. p. 440 [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Hitler, p. 447 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See R.J. Lifton, p. 31 [RETURN TO CH 4]
Ibid., pp. 35, 40–1, 129–30 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See ibid., pp. 25, 36 [RETURN TO CH 4]
Geoffrey Shakespeare memo. to Sec. of State, 14 May 1941, p. 1; Geoffrey Shakespeare papers, GHS2, IWM [RETURN TO CH 4]
Erika Mann, ‘Hess meeting in Spain was fixed’, Glasgow Evening Citizen, 1945 (month and date missing); Ian Sayer archive [RETURN TO CH 4]
G. Shakespeare memo.; op. cit., ref. 9 above [RETURN TO CH 4]
See Scott Newton, p. 26 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See F.W. Winterbotham, pp. 83 ff [RETURN TO CH 4]
See B. Fromm, pp. 194 ff [RETURN TO CH 4]
That they met is confirmed by one of the first German broadcasts after Hess’s flight: Bremen 16.30, 13 May 1941; BBC Written Archives Centre, Reading; also TNA INF 1/912, f. 6; see also Karl Haushofer interrogation confirming this, 9 Oct. 1945; IWM FO 695 Box 157; and R.C. Langdon to author, 13, 17 May 1991, states that Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton left him in no doubt that Clydesdale and Hess met in Berlin in 1936 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See J. Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth, pp. 68 ff [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Haushofer to R. Hess, 7 Sept. 1933; U. Laack-Michel, p. 316 [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Haushofer to M. & K. Haushofer, 27 July 1934; ibid., p. 321 [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Haushofer to M. Haushofer, 18 Aug. 1934; ibid., p. 322 [RETURN TO CH 4]
W. Stubbe, p. 245 [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Haushofer to M. & K. Haushofer, 27 July 1934; U. Laack-Michel, p. 321 [RETURN TO CH 4]
Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin, 1937–39; cited A. Roberts, p. 49 [RETURN TO CH 4]
Cited J. Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth, p. 70 [RETURN TO CH 4]
Ibid., pp. 73–4 [RETURN TO CH 4]
Part of A. Haushofer’s speech; cited ibid., p. 75 [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Haushofer to Clydesdale, 27 Nov. 1937; cited ibid., p. 77 [RETURN TO CH 4]
Nesta Webster (Mrs Arthur Webster), ‘Germany and England’, The Patriot, Wikipedia [RETURN TO CH 4]
See J. Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth, pp. 77–8 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See ‘Hossbach Memorandum’, 5 Nov. 1937; IMT 386-PS [RETURN TO CH 4]
19 Nov. 1937; cited A. Roberts, p. 72 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See ibid., p. 73 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See ibid., p. 129 [RETURN TO CH 4]
29 Dec. 1938; U. v. Hassell, Andern Deutschland, p. 43 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See A. Roberts, p. 136 [RETURN TO CH 4]
See M.J. Cohen, p. xvii [RETURN TO CH 4]
A. Eichmann, ‘Palästinareise Bericht’, undated, pp. 31–2, Sicherheitsdienst der RFSS; David Irving archive [RETURN TO CH 4]
Chapter 5: Struggle for peace
See A. Roberts, p. 151 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Kenneth de Courcy to author, 8, 14 Jan. 1990, 25 Nov. 1995 [RETURN TO CH 5]
A. Haushofer to Clydesdale, 16 July 1939, J. Douglas-Hamilton, The Truth, pp. 94 ff [RETURN TO CH 5]
There is no record of these meetings in the Foreign Office files open to the public, nor in Halifax’s private papers: see Andrew Roberts, ‘The plot to betray Poland’, The Sunday Telegraph, 8 Aug. 1999, ‘Review’, p. 1 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Andrew Roberts, ‘The plot to betray Poland’, ibid. [RETURN TO CH 5]
See ibid.; and D. Cameron Watt to The Sunday Telegraph, 15 Aug. 1999; Andrew Roberts to The Times, 11 Aug. 1999; obituary Lord Aberconway, The Times, 5 Feb. 2003 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See ‘Summary of principle peace feelers September 1939–March 1941’, TNA FO 371/26542, C4216/324/18, ff. 96–7; and R. Lamb, pp. 112 ff [RETURN TO CH 5]
E. St. J. Bamford (Ministry of Information) to A. Cadogan, 19 Oct. 1945; TNA KV 2/2839, f. 69 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Special Branch, Straits Settlement Police to Sir Ver
non Kell (Director MI5), 21 Aug. 1939; ibid., f. 256 [RETURN TO CH 5]
E. St. J. Bamford to A. Cadogan, op. cit., ref. 8 above [RETURN TO CH 5]
TNA KV 2/2839, f. 4 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Ibid. passim [RETURN TO CH 5]
‘Extract from Passport Papers’. ibid., ff. 254, 249–50 [RETURN TO CH 5]
‘L’AFFAIRE CHARLES’, in ibid., f. 91 [RETURN TO CH 5]
E.B. Stamp (‘B’ div. MI5) to SIS (MI6), 14 Mar. 1941; ibid., f. 166 [RETURN TO CH 5]
‘L’AFFAIRE CHARLES’, op. cit., ref. 14 above [RETURN TO CH 5]
IMT, vol. 38, pp. 172–3 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Cited D. Irving, War Path, pp. 255–6 [RETURN TO CH 5]
N. Henderson, p. 287 [RETURN TO CH 5]
W. Shirer, Berlin Diary, pp. 161 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See P. Padfield, Himmler, pp. 270 ff [RETURN TO CH 5]
J. v. Lang and C. Sibyll, p. 92 [RETURN TO CH 5]
J. Colville, p. 28 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See A. Roberts, p. 179 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Adrian Liddell Hart to The Sunday Telegraph, 26 Nov. 1989 [RETURN TO CH 5]
12 Aug. 1939, Nigel West, p. 11 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Cited J. Costello, p. 55 [RETURN TO CH 5]
6 Oct. 1939; cited J. Douglas-Hamilton, Motive, pp. 105–6 [RETURN TO CH 5]
24 Oct. 1939; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 3, p. 619 [RETURN TO CH 5]
7 Nov. 1939; ibid., p. 633 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Report of US Minister in Berne to Sec. of State, 11 Nov. 1939; 862.002 Hitler, Adolf, f. 228, Confidential File RG 59, Nat. Archives, Washington; cited J. Costello, p. 59 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See Bob de Graaff, ‘The Venlo Incident’; www.georg-elser-arbeitskreis.de/texts/graaff.htm [RETURN TO CH 5]
See K. Jeffery, p. 383 [RETURN TO CH 5]
9 Nov. 1939; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 3, p. 636 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Ibid., pp. 636–7 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Ibid., p. 637 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See S. Payne Best, pp. 157 ff; O. Strasser, p. 146 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See Peter Steinbach, Johannes Tuchel, ‘“Ich habe den Krieg verhindern wollen”: Georg Elser und das Attentat vom 8 November 1939’; www.georg-elser.de/dok/index.html; and Christopher Glazek, ‘Remembering Georg Elser’, Spiegel (online), 23 Oct. 2008 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See E. Calic, pp. 319 ff; and A. Cave Brown, p. 326 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See K. Jeffery, p. 385. Payne Best had a list of agents’ names and addresses with him [RETURN TO CH 5]
‘Extract from Passport Papers, James Lonsdale Bryans’; TNA KV 2/2839, f. 254 [RETURN TO CH 5]
J. Lonsdale Bryans to Halifax, 28 Feb. 1940; ibid., f. 140 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Facsimile of the conditions in U. v. Hassell, Tagebücher, pp. 171–2 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Ibid., p. 169 [RETURN TO CH 5]
Ibid., p. 170 [RETURN TO CH 5]
J. Lonsdale Bryans to Halifax, 28 Feb. 1940; op. cit. ref. 42 above [RETURN TO CH 5]
J. Lonsdale Bryans’ own account, ‘L’AFFAIRE CHARLES’; TNA KV 2/2839, f. 91; and see confirmation in U. v. Hassell, Tagebücher p. 189. ‘Another group in Germany’ referred to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and co-conspirators in the Abwehr, whose representative, Josef Müller, was attempting to obtain British governmental support for a coup against Hitler through the Vatican; see M. Mueller, p. 180 [RETURN TO CH 5]
See Beaverbrook–Liddell Hart correspondence; Beaverbrook Papers, House of Lords Record Office, C/159; and see P. Padfield, Hess, p. 115 [RETURN TO CH 5]
19 Mar. 1940; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, p. 80 [RETURN TO CH 5]
30 Mar. 1940; ibid., p. 91 [RETURN TO CH 5]
U. v. Hassell, Andern Deutschland, pp. 148–9; and see R. Lamb, pp. 133 ff [RETURN TO CH 5]
Chapter 6: Churchill – and the Jews
21 Apr. 1940; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, p. 121 [RETURN TO CH 6]
25 Apr. 1940; ibid., p. 126 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Cited M. Cohen, p. 5 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Cited ibid., p. 277 [RETURN TO CH 6]
M. Gilbert, pp. 919 f [RETURN TO CH 6]
See M. Cohen, p. 3 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Der Halt Befehl, 24 May 1940; cited A. Seidl, p. 85 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See B. Bond, pp. 104–5 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Cited A. Seidl, pp. 82–3 [RETURN TO CH 6]
B. Liddell Hart, pp. 114–5 [RETURN TO CH 6]
4 June 1940; cited M. Gilbert, p. 468 [RETURN TO CH 6]
By July a peak of 753 members of the BUF had been interned; C. Andrew, p. 227 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See TNA PREM 5/209. Buccleuch relinquished his appointment in audience with the King on 26 June 1940; The Times, 27 June 1940 [RETURN TO CH 6]
24 May 1940; TNA PREM 5/209 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Guy Liddell’s diary, 12, 17, 19 May 1940; 13 May: ‘I have got Sneath and Dickson to prepare a case on the B.U.F. in order to show the whole organisation is a hostile association’; 16 May: ‘the case against the B.U.F. is being worked up …’; TNA KV 4/186, pp. 451 ff [RETURN TO CH 6]
See www.oswaldmosley.com/regulation18b.htm [RETURN TO CH 6]
TNA KV 2/841; cited C. Andrew, p. 225 [RETURN TO CH 6]
TNA KV 4/227; cited ibid.; and see B. Clough, pp. 127, 129 ff, 142 ff, 187, 254 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Maxwell Knight’s report to Brig. O.A. Harker, 31 Jan. 1945 in TNA KV 2/545, reproduced in B. Clough, p. 266; and see B. Clough, pp. 47, 241 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Guy Liddell’s diary. 21 May 1940; TNA KV 4/186, pp. 466 f [RETURN TO CH 6]
See C. Andrew, p. 226; and Guy Liddell’s diary, 23 May 1940; TNA KV 4/186, pp. 469–70 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Nat. Archives Washington, RG 59, US Emb. London Confidential File 1939–40; cited J. Costello, p. 136 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Guy Liddell’s diary, 12 Feb. 1940; TNA KV 4/185, p. 134 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Ibid., 14 Feb. 1940; ibid., p. 140 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 6]
Idem., 18, 22, 23 Feb., 20 Apr. 1940, pp. 146, 157–8, 432 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Cited in Bild-Zeitung, 16 Mar. 1981; and see Richard Deacon, ‘C’: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield, Head of MI6, Macdonald, 1985, pp. 86–7 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Report P.F.37755 on Jahnke; TNA KV 2/755 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Walter Schellenberg’s report on Jahnke; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 6]
W. Schellenberg, p. 304 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See TNA KV 2/755 [RETURN TO CH 6]
H. Kravsnick, ‘Denkschrift Himmlers über die Behandlung der Fremdvölkischen im Osten’; Viertelsjahrsheft für Zeitgeschichte, 5, 1957, p. 195 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Ibid., p. 197 [RETURN TO CH 6]
F. Kersten, p. 88 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Ibid., pp. 334–6 [RETURN TO CH 6]
17 Aug 1940; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, p. 284 [RETURN TO CH 6]
J. v. Lang, C. Sibyll, pp. 92–3 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/madagascar.html [RETURN TO CH 6]
P. Longerich, Holocaust, p. 164 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, R 49/157; cited R. Giordano, pp. 154 ff [RETURN TO CH 6]
See P. Longerich, Himmler, pp. 527–9; P. Longerich, Holocaust, p. 217 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Cited Peter Longerich, Unwritten Order, p. 71; German text in R. Calic, p. 400 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See P. Padfield, Himmler, pp. 260 ff, 303 ff [RETURN TO CH 6]
R.J. Lifton, p. 14 [RETURN TO CH 6]
9 Nov. 1939; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 3, p. 636 [RETURN TO CH 6]
10 Sept. 1940; ibid., Teil 1, Band 4, p. 317 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Hohenlohe to W. Hewel, 23 June 1940; F & CO 1504 371077 [RETURN TO CH 6]
K. de Courcy to A. Liddell Hart, 2
Feb. 1988; to author 30 Nov. 1990, 13 Jan. 1993 (and see R.A. Butler to K. de Courcy, 6 June 1940; Trinity College Lib.) [RETURN TO CH 6]
K. de Courcy to author, ibid. [RETURN TO CH 6]
Prytz told K. de Courcy that the meeting was arranged; K. de Courcy to author, 30 Nov. 1990 [RETURN TO CH 6]
R. Lamb, pp. 143–6; A. Roberts, pp. 231–2; ‘Prytz-Telegramm’ Der Spiegel, No. 40, 19 Jahrg., 29 Sep. 1965, p. 103; von Weizsäcker to Ribbentrop, 19, 22 June 1940; F & CO B15 B002529, B002530; Tel. No. 723, 17 June 1940; Swedish Staatsarchiv/HP 39 A XXXIII/UDA; cited Gellermann, p. 26 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Gellermann, p. 26 [RETURN TO CH 6]
M. Gilbert, pp. 598–9; A. Roberts, pp. 234–6 [RETURN TO CH 6]
28 June 1940; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, p. 221 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Hohenlohe to W. Hewel, 18 July 1940; Documents on German Foreign Policy, Series D, p. 202 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See Lord Vansittart, Lessons, pp. 185–6 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See ibid., pp. 186 f, 205; and Lord Vansittart, Black Record, pp. 33, 79 [RETURN TO CH 6]
See Lord Vansittart, Mist Procession, pp. 497, 512–3, 550 ff; and A. Roberts, p. 81 [RETURN TO CH 6]
A. Liddell Hart to author, 6 Dec 1989. Vansittart remained at the highest level of intelligence/Foreign Office co-ordination (see K. Jeffery, pp. 548, 738) and was particularly involved in the evaluation of German peace feelers; see TNA FO 371/24251, FO 371/24405, FO 371/24407. As a recipient of political reports on Hess’s mission, his name appears second, after ‘C’s liaison, Henry Hopkinson, and before Churchill’s intelligence adviser, Major Desmond Morton; see MI6 Political Report No. 25, 19 May 1941; TNA WO 208/4471 [RETURN TO CH 6]
R. Vansittart (later Lord), ‘Desolation’; The Times, 31 July 1940 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Hohenlohe to W. Hewel, 18 July 1940, op. cit., ref. 55 above, p. 203 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Sir David Kelly, The Ruling Few, Hollis & Carter, 1952, pp. 372–3; cited A. Roberts, p. 245 [RETURN TO CH 6]
H. Nicolson to V. Sackville-West, 19 June 1940; H. Nicolson, p. 96 [RETURN TO CH 6]
Cited J. Colville, p. 186 [RETURN TO CH 6]
31 July 1940; F. Halder, p. 48 [RETURN TO CH 6]