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Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 10]
Col. J.P. Duke, Scottish Command, memo., 31 May 1941; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 10]
I. Hess, Schicksal, pp. 88–9 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Report by O.C. 3rd Battalion Renfrewshire Home Guard of the incidents of the night 10th, 11th May 1941; TNA WO 199/3288A [RETURN TO CH 10]
I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 89 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Report by O.C. 3rd Battalion …, op. cit. ref. 85 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
‘German P.O.W. captured …’, op. cit. ref. 80 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
‘Extract from Duty Officer’s Report …’; op. cit. ref. 79 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
Report by O.C. 3rd Battalion …; op. cit. ref. 85 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
J. Leasor, pp. 37–8 [RETURN TO CH 10]
See Spence (?) to Maj. P.C. Perfect, 19 May 1941; TNA KV 2/34 f. 3; and ‘Report on the Collection of Drugs etc. belonging to the German Airman Prisoner, Capt. Horn’, H.H. Duke, 27 May 1941; TNA FO 1093/10 f. 178 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Report by O.C. 3rd Battalion …, op. cit. ref. 85 above, p. 2: ‘Copy of the inventory is attached to this report.’; Major James Barrie to O.C. 3rd Battalion Renfrewshire Home Guard, p. 4: ‘handed over to him all the articles removed from the prisoner and obtained the accompanying receipt.’; Lt Whitby to O.C. 11th Battalion Cameronians: ‘The Duty Officer took an inventory of the prisoner’s effects … a receipt for these was given to Maj. Barrie.’ [RETURN TO CH 10]
Spence (?) to Maj. P.C. Perfect, 19 May 1941; TNA KV 2/34 f. 1 [RETURN TO CH 10]
See ‘An Observer’s Diary’; ref. 51 above, pp. 157 ff; and letter Group Capt. C. Murray to author, 12 May 1991: ‘a fellow officer was Flying Officer Malcolm. Malcolm was on leave at his house in Scotland after Hess landed very close by. As an RAF officer he was summoned to interview Hess …’ [RETURN TO CH 10]
City of Glasgow Police to Maj. P. Perfect, 17 May 1941: ‘Mr Fairweather of Farside, Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire, a fluent German speaker … was sent a request to act as interpreter but was ill in bed and forced to refuse. BATTAGLIA, who is a lodger with the Fairweather family … offered his services …’; TNA KV 2/34; alternatively Spence (?) to Major P. Perfect, 19 May 1941, p. 2: ‘Col. Hardie thought it advisable to have an interpreter present. He telephoned to Roman Battaglia, a Pole employed in the Polish Consulate in Glasgow’; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 10]
Lt John Mair, ‘The Interrogation of Rudolf Hess by Roman Battaglia’; TNA KV 2/35 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 10]
Maj. Graham Donald to Scottish Area Commandant ROC, 11 May 1941, p. 2; TNA AIR 16/266; and see Commandant ROC to C.-in-C. Fighter Command, 18 May 1941; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 10]
I. Hess, Schicksal, pp. 89–90 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Report by O.C. 3rd Battalion …; op. cit. ref. 85 above, p. 2 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Maj. Graham Donald to Sir Harry Greer, 19 May 1941, enclosing a piece of metal from Hess’s Me 110; IWM Exhibit ref. 268/67 [RETURN TO CH 10]
See ref. 99 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
Major Barrie to O.C. 3rd Battalian Home Guard Renfrewshire, 11 May 1941: ‘I left Battalion Headquarters … at 02.15’; TNA WO 199/3288A [RETURN TO CH 10]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 10]
Ibid., p. 4 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 10]
See p. 119 [RETURN TO CH 10]
See p. 174 [RETURN TO CH 10]
‘Report on Interview with Herr Hess by Wing Commander the Duke of Hamilton, Sunday, 11 May 1941’; TNA FO 1093/1 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Mrs N.M. Goodall to author, 26 May, 12, 14 June 1991 [RETURN TO CH 10]
See ‘An Observer’s Diary’; ref. 51 above, p. 157; D. Wood, p. 2; Sqdn LDr R.G. Woodman to author, 11 June 1991; R.C. Nesbit and G. v. Acker, p. 66 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Mrs N.M. Goodall to author, 26 May 1991 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Elizabeth Hamilton to author, 12 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Mrs N.M. Goodall to author, 26 May, 12, 14 June 1991 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Elizabeth Hamilton to author, 12 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 10]
See p. 182 above; Major Barrie to O.C. 3rd Battalion; op. cit. ref. 104 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
J. Harris and D. Wilbourn, p. 228 [RETURN TO CH 10]
‘Report on Interview …’; op. cit. ref. 110 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
I. Hess; Schicksal, May–July 1947, p. 90 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Ibid., 9 May 1948, p. 179 [RETURN TO CH 10]
See Duke of Hamilton to P.M.’s private office, 18 May 1941: ‘As you know the Prime Minister saw some rough notes about my first meeting with Herr Hess. I now enclose a more detailed report compiled from these notes which I think the Prime Minister might like to see; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 137; and Mrs I. Pyne to author, 12 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 10]
‘Additional Notes on the Hess Incident by Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton’; TNA INF 1/912 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Draft statement by W. Churchill, 13 (?) May 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/4 [RETURN TO CH 10]
FO to Moscow, 4 Nov. 1942; TNA FO 371/30920, C10635/61/18 [RETURN TO CH 10]
‘Additional Notes …’; op. cit. ref. 123 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
Mrs I. Pyne to author, 12 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Elizabeth Hamilton to author, 12 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 10]
‘Additional Notes …’; op. cit. ref. 123 above [RETURN TO CH 10]
Lord Sherfield (formerly R. Makins) to author, 7 Mar. 1991; and see J. Colville, p. 734 [RETURN TO CH 10]
A. Cadogan’s diary, Sun. 11 May 1941; Churchill College Archives Centre, Cambridge, ACAD 1/10 [RETURN TO CH 10]
Chapter 11: Reactions
11 May 1941; Colville diary (unpublished), vol. 4, p. 157, Churchill College Archive Centre, Cambridge, CLVL 1 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 11]
17–18 May 1941; ibid., pp. 199–200. The ‘red pocket diary’ is not in the archive [RETURN TO CH 11]
11 May 1941; ibid., p. 196 [RETURN TO CH 11]
J. Colville, p. 385 [RETURN TO CH 11]
11 May 1941; Colville diary, op. cit. ref. 1 above, p. 197 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid., pp. 158, 197; J. Colville, p. 386 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Colville diary; op. cit. ref. 1 above, p. 197 [RETURN TO CH 11]
J. Colville, p. 387 [RETURN TO CH 11]
11 May 1941; Cadogan diary, op. cit. Chapter 10 ref. 131 [RETURN TO CH 11]
J. Costello, pp. 416–7, citing Lawford’s unpublished diary and Lawford interview [RETURN TO CH 11]
The Times, 14 May 1941, p. 5 [RETURN TO CH 11]
J. Douglas-Hamilton, Motive, p. 178, citing account given in writing by Jock Colville, summer 1969 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See M. Gilbert, Finest Hour, pp. 841, 900 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See Martin Wood, ‘The Queen of Chintz’, Telegraph Magazine, 17 Sept. 2005, pp. 62–3 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ronald Tree, When the Moon was High: Memoirs of Peace and War 1897–1942, London, 1962, p. 130; cited J. Costello, p. 417 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See pp. 168–9 above [RETURN TO CH 11]
See p. 189 above; Cadogan diary, 11 May 1941; op. cit. Chapter 10, ref. 131 [RETURN TO CH 11]
‘Additional Notes …’; op. cit. Chapter 10 ref. 123, p. 2 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 11]
Cadogan diary, Mon, 12 May 1941; op. cit. Chapter 10 ref. 131 [RETURN TO CH 11]
‘Additional Notes …’; op. cit. Chapter 10 ref. 123, p. 3 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 11]
See pp. 159–60 above [RETURN TO CH 11]
F. Halder, 15 May 1941, Band 2, pp. 413–4 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See p. 147 above [RETURN TO CH 11]
Lippert’s stat
ement to W.R. Hess, 29 Feb. 1984; W.R. Hess, My Father, pp. 343–4, ref. 1 [RETURN TO CH 11]
K.-H. Pintsch to James Leasor; J. Leasor, pp. 94–6 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid., pp. 97–192 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid., p. 102. This account corresponds with a statement Pintsch wrote in Soviet captivity in 1948: ‘The Führer had known about Hess’s flight for a while because Berlin had been negotiating with London for some time’; Jan Friedmann and Klaus Wiegrefe, ‘Historian Uncovers New Account’, Spiegel (online), 30 May 2011 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Engel’s diary, 11 May 1941; H. v. Ketz (ed.), Heeresadjutant bei Hitler 1938–1943, Stuttgart, 1974, pp. 103–41; cited R. Schmidt, p. 190 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Bormann’s Notizkalendar, 11 May 1941; Nat. Archives, Washington, T-84, EAP 105/18; cited R. Schmidt, p. 189 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Engel’s diary, 11 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 32 above [RETURN TO CH 11]
CSDIC (UK) G.G. Report, S.R.G.G 1236© 20.5.1945; TNA WO 208/4170; cited R. Schmidt, p. 189 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See W. Schwarzwäller, p. 175 [RETURN TO CH 11]
A. Speer, Errinerungen, p. 189 [RETURN TO CH 11]
H. Linge (ed. W. Masur), Bis zum Untergang: Als Chef des persönlichen Dienstes bei Hitler, Munich/Berlin, 1980, pp. 141 f; cited R. Schmidt, pp. 186–7 [RETURN TO CH 11]
H. Eberle and M. Uhl, p. xxvi [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid., pp. 69–70 [RETURN TO CH 11]
I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 78 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See, for instance, I. Kershaw, Nemesis, pp. 371–7; and R. Schmidt, esp. pp. 187–90 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Joachim Fest, The Face of the Third Reich, Harmondsworth, 1972, p. 292; cited I. Kershaw, Nemesis, p. 375 [RETURN TO CH 11]
‘Rede Hans Franks über Wirkung des Englandflugs von Rudolf Hess’, IfZ (Munich) MA 120/5, Fol. 480: ‘Der Führer war so vollkommen erschüttert, wie ich das eigentlich noch nicht erlebt habe.’ [RETURN TO CH 11]
G. Halder’s Journal, p. 388; cited J. Costello, p. 422 [RETURN TO CH 11]
N. v. Below, Als Hitlers Adjutant 1937–1945, Mainz, 1980, pp. 273–4; IfZ ED 100 Hewel Tagebuch, Irving Sammlung, 12 Mai 1941: ‘Der Führer entschliest sich zur Veröffentlichen. Passus, dass es sich um eine Wahnsinntat handelt, wurd von F[ührer] durchgesetzt’; cited I. Kershaw, Nemesis, p. 938, ref. 190 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Deutschlandsender, 12 May 1941, 20.00; BBC Written Archives Centre, Reading; and TNA INF 1/192 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Martha Haushofer diary, 11 May 1941; H.-A. Jacobsen, p. 509 [RETURN TO CH 11]
IMT doc. Ps-1671; Bundesarchiv Koblenz HC 833 [RETURN TO CH 11]
W. Stubbe, p. 251 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See U. Laack-Michel, p. 233 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See pp. 168–9 above [RETURN TO CH 11]
13 May 1941; E. Fröhlich, Teil I, Band 4, pp. 638–9 [RETURN TO CH 11]
BBC Written Archives Centre, Reading [RETURN TO CH 11]
I. Kirkpatrick, ‘Record of an Interview with Herr Hess on May 13 1941’; IMT vol. 38, p. 177, doc. 117-M [RETURN TO CH 11]
‘Additional Notes …’; op. cit. Chapter 10 ref. 123 [RETURN TO CH 11]
I. Kirkpatrick, op. cit. ref. 55 above [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid., pp. 179–80 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid., p. 180 [RETURN TO CH 11]
A. Cadogan (untitled) Report to P.M., 13 May 1941, p. 2; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 172 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Mrs I. Pyne to author, 12 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See The Times, 12 June 1992 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Sqdn Ldr F. Day to author, 16 June 1992, 15 May 2001: ‘The Air Force officer had lots of medals and gold braid on his cap; the gold braid particularly struck me.’ [RETURN TO CH 11]
See C.F. Innes, Craigiehall: The Story of a fine Scots Country House, 1966, p. 76 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Scott Newton, Profits of Peace, p. 83 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Peter Millar, ‘The Other Prince’, The Sunday Times (News Review), 26 Jan. 2003, p. 2 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See p. 128 above [RETURN TO CH 11]
L. Picknett, C. Prince, S. Prior, p. 269 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Ibid., pp. 268–9 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Roy Nesbit to author, 17 Sept. 2012; and J. Harris and R. Wilbourn, pp. 27–8; R. Williams to author, 3 Oct. 2012, states, ‘An airfield lighting system for night landings was developed at RAF Drem in 1940, and was so successful … it became the basis for all subsequent RAF airfield lighting.’ Williams points out that RAF Drem was Hamilton’s 602 Squadron base before he moved to Turnhouse, thus it seems very possible that he had the system installed on his landing strip at Dungavel. [RETURN TO CH 11]
L. Picknett, C. Prince, S. Prior, p. 285 [RETURN TO CH 11]
See J. Harris and D. Wilbourn, Illusion of Peace, p. 69 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Peter Millar; op. cit. ref. 66 above, p. 2 [RETURN TO CH 11]
I. Kirkpatrick; op. cit. ref. 55 above, p. 181 [RETURN TO CH 11]
‘Additional Notes’; op. cit Chapter 10 ref. 123, p. 4 [RETURN TO CH 11]
I. Kirkpatrick; op. cit. ref. 55 above, p. 182 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Col. Duke to Undersecretary of State War Office, 15 May 1941; TNA WO 199/3288A [RETURN TO CH 11]
R. Grenfell, p. 252 [RETURN TO CH 11]
Chapter 12: Conflicting statements
13 May 1941, 10.30, Bremen, in English; IWM BBC flash form [RETURN TO CH 12]
14 May 1941 (‘Yesterday’); E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, pp. 639–40 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Deutschlandsender, 13 May 1941, 14.00; IWM (Duxford) Box A 216 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Bremen, 13 May 1941, 16.30, in English; IWM BBC flash form [RETURN TO CH 12]
Deutschlandsender, 13 May 1941, 19.45; IWM (Duxford) Box A 216 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 12]
See R. Schmidt, p. 199 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Unknown signature to Hauptbefehlshaber Saupert, 2 Dec. 1941, ‘Anschluss aus der NSDAP Pg Franz von Pfeffer am 24 Nov. 1941’; Berlin Document Center [RETURN TO CH 12]
See R. Schmidt, pp. 199–200 [RETURN TO CH 12]
See R. Heydrich to Reichsführer, 15 May 1941, telegram 2020; Bundesarchiv Koblenz NS 19/3872 [RETURN TO CH 12]
See R. Schmidt, p. 202 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Reichsführer-SS to Ilse Hess, 29 Apr. 1943; cited H. Heiber, p. 211: ‘Die Entscheidung in der Sache Ihres Hauses von Seiten des Führers ist eine ganz klare. Sie sollen das Haus in Harlaching behalten …’ [RETURN TO CH 12]
14 May 1941; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, p. 640 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Cadogan’s diary, Monday 12 May 1941; Churchill College Archives Centre, Cambridge ACAD 1/10 [RETURN TO CH 12]
See p. 185 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
Cadogan’s diary, Monday 12 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 14 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
14 May 1941, 13.55, Berlin; TNA PREM 3 219/4, f. 12 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Cadogan’s diary, Wednesday 14 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 14 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
10 Downing Street, typed: TNA PREM 3 219/4, ff. 16–17 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Ibid., f. 15 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Cadogan’s diary, Wednesday 14 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 14 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
Op. cit. ref. 19 above, f. 7 [RETURN TO CH 12]
See pp. 207–9 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
President to Former Naval Person, 15 May 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 197 [RETURN TO CH 12]
I. Kirkpatrick, ‘Record of an Interview with Herr Hess’, 15 May 1941; IMT vol. 38, doc. 119-M, pp. 183–4 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 12]
International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, to the authors of Double Standards, 28 July 2000, Picknett, Prince, Prior, p. 306 [RETURN TO CH 12]
ORB RAF Turnhouse, appendices
, 15 May 1941; TNA AIR 28/864 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Cadogan’s diary, 15 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 14 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
W. Monckton to Duff Cooper, 27 May 1941; Ian Sayer archive [RETURN TO CH 12]
W. Armstrong, p. 129 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Duff Cooper to P.M., 16 May 1941; TNA INF 1/912; and see TNA FO 371/26565, C5562/5188/18 [RETURN TO CH 12]
A. Cadogan ‘Most Secret’ circular to Berne, Madrid etc., 17 May 1941; TNA FO 371/26565, C5421/5188/18 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 12]
P.M.’s personal minute to Foreign Sec., M 540/1, 13 May 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 167 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Robert Shaw to Stephen McGinty; cited in ‘Flight to Nowhere’, The Sunday Times, 11 Apr. 1999 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Hamilton to J.M. Martin, Air Ministry, 18 May 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 137; and J.M. Martin to W.I. Mallet, 10 Downing Street, 18 May 1941; TNA FO 1093/11, f. 107 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Letter dated 15 May 1941; TNA INF 1/192 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Maj. Sheppard, ‘My Impressions of X’, 21 May 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 144 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Maj. Sheppard, ‘Report on the Conduct of X’, 17 May 1941; ibid., f. 147 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Col. R.A. Lennie, C.O. Military Hospital, ‘Special Report – Prisoner of War – No. 3’, 17 May 1941; TNA WO 199/3288A [RETURN TO CH 12]
‘Helping Hess’, The Daily Telegraph, 15 Oct. 2009 [RETURN TO CH 12]
See, for instance, The Herald, Glasgow, 2 Feb. 2009 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Guy Liddell’s diary, 13 May 1941; N. West, pp. 146–7 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Report signed T.A. Robertson, 13 May 1941; TNA KV 2/34; T.A. Robertson to author, 2 Oct. 1992 [RETURN TO CH 12]
See Maj. P. Perfect to A.S. MacIver, 17 May 1941; TNA KV 2/34 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Buyers to Spence (?), 19 May 1941; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 12]
Spence (?) to Major P. Perfect, 19 May 1941; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 12]
Cited John Harris, ‘Witness’; BBC History Magazine, May 2001, p. 53 [RETURN TO CH 12]
See pp. 187–9 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
See pp. 179–80, 182 [RETURN TO CH 12]
John Howell in conversation and letters to the author, 19 Feb.–10 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 12]