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R. Kempner, Das Dritte Reich im Kreuzverhör: Aus den Vernehmungsprotokollen des Anklägers, Athenäum/Droste, 1980, pp. 104 ff; cited A. Seidl, p. 70 [RETURN TO CH 12]
A. Seidl, pp. 70–1 [RETURN TO CH 12]
H. Bohle’s testimony, 10 July 1945; TNA KV 2/38 [RETURN TO CH 12]
E.W. Bohle interrogation by Col. H.A. Brundage, 11 Sept. 1945, p. 2; IWM FO 645, Box 155 [RETURN TO CH 12]
H. Bohle’s testimony; op. cit. ref. 55 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
See pp. 153–5 above [RETURN TO CH 12]
Beaverbrook to J. Leasor, 20 Feb. 1961; Beaverbrook Papers, House of Lords Record Office, C/216 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Beaverbrook to J. Leasor, 13 Feb. 1961; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 12]
Lawrence Burgis (Assistant to Deputy Secretary to the War Cabinet) docket, 15 May 1941, p. 2; Lawrence Burgis Papers, Churchill College Archives Centre, Cambridge, BRGS 2/4 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Ibid., p. 4 [RETURN TO CH 12]
MI6 Political Report No. 225, 19 May 1941; TNA WO 208/4471 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Lord Vansittart, Black Record, p. 43 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Ibid., p. 45 [RETURN TO CH 12]
Chapter 13: Negotiations?
Received 5 June 1941; TNA FO 371/26542, C6049/324/18 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Enclosed in ibid. [RETURN TO CH 13]
See Dill Papers, King’s College London, 3/2/7 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See pp. 138–9 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See Hoare, Madrid, Nos. 320, 321, 20 Feb. 1941; TNA FO 371/26939, C1713/222/41; Hoare, Madrid, No. 631, 23 Apr. 1941; TNA FO 371/26905, C4161/46/41 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See p. 138 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See pp. 133–5 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See pp. 141–3 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See p. 142 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See p. 139 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Hoare, Madrid, No. 641, 25 Apr. 1941; TNA FO 371/26945, C4245/306/41; Hoare, Madrid, No. 148, 25 Apr. 1941; ibid., C4613/306/41 [RETURN TO CH 13]
‘Questions in Parliament’; The Times, 23 Apr. 1941 [RETURN TO CH 13]
16 May 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 146 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See pp. 226–8 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Cadogan’s diary, 19 May 1941; Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, ACAD 1/10 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 13]
See A. Kramish, pp. 97, 200–1 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See pp. 111, 132 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See K. Jeffery, p. 301 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See S. McGinty, p. 8 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See Col. Scott’s diary, ‘Camp Z’. 7 July 1941; IWM 69/66/1; G. Liddell’s diary, 9 June, 3 July 1941; N. West, pp. 153, 158; Gen. A. Hunter to H. Hopkinson, 5 July 1941; TNA F0 1093/12, f. 190; Michael Evans, ‘Poles plotted to kidnap and beat up Hess’, Daily Telegraph, 3 July 1992 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. N. Coates to Col. A.M. Scott, 18 May 1941; Col. Scott’s diary; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
‘he was convinced he was surrounded by the sinister forces of the secret service, who desired his death …’, Col. G. Graham, ‘Memorandum on Rudolf Hess’; TNA FO 1093/11, f. 74 [RETURN TO CH 13]
R. Hess to Hamilton, ‘Persönlich, Dem Herzog von Hamilton’, London, 19 May 1941; TNA FO 1093/11, ff. 64–8 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Cadogan memo., 25 May 1941, initialled ‘A.E.’; ibid., f. 69 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. Scott’s diary, 20 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Ibid., 21 May 1941; and see D. Irving, Hess, p. 105 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See S. McGinty, pp. 14–16 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. Scott’s diary, 24 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Lt W.B. Malone diary, 28 May 1941; The Observer, London, Sept. 1987, cited D. Irving, Hess, p. 110 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. Scott’s diary, 24 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Lt W.B. Malone’s diary, 28 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 30 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Translation of Deposition handed to Lt Loftus; Col. Scott’s diary, 1 Aug. 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See D. Popov, p. 240; and G. Thomas, pp. 74 f [RETURN TO CH 13]
Lord Beaverbrook believed this, according to Robert Bruce Lockhart, head of Foreign Office political intelligence dept., who after talking about Hess with him, wrote in his diary, ‘Max thinks he [Hess] was probably given some kind of drugs by our people to make him talk’; The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, vol. II; 1939–1945, London, 1984, cited D. Irving, Hess, p. 197 note [RETURN TO CH 13]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 8 Jan. 1948; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 166 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Lt W.B. Malone, ‘Report on last night’s incidents’; Col. Scott’s diary, 29 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. Scott’s diary, 29 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. G. Graham, ‘Memorandum on Herr Rudolf Hess’; TNA FO 1093/11, f. 73 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Ibid., f. 76 [RETURN TO CH 13]
J. Leasor to The Times, 20 Aug. 1987 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. Scott’s diary, 29 May 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
Luton Herald, 8 Feb. 1979 [RETURN TO CH 13]
G. Liddell’s diary, 28 May 1941, vol. 3, p. 919; TNA KV 4/187 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Ibid., 27 May 1941 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Ibid., 28 May 1941 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Luton Herald, 8 Feb. 1979 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See G. Liddell’s diary; N. West, p. 315 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Luton Herald, 8 Feb 1979 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Lt Col. J. McCowen to author, 10 June 1990 [RETURN TO CH 13]
N. West, p. 151 skips from 27 to 29 May 1941 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See p. 162 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
J.R. Rees, ‘Tentative Conclusions from my Interview’, 31 May 1941; TNA FO 1093/10, f. 159 [RETURN TO CH 13]
‘Report No. 16’ unsigned (by F. Foley), 30 May 1941; TNA FO 1093/11, f. 85 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 13]
R.A. Butler to A. Cadogan, 22 May 1941; Cadogan minute, 22 May 1941; ibid., f. 90 [RETURN TO CH 13]
A. Eden to Lord Simon, 28 May 1941; Simon Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Box 88, f. 39 [RETURN TO CH 13]
I. Kirkpatrick to Lord Simon, untitled, 29 May 1941; ibid., ff. 47 ff [RETURN TO CH 13]
See, for instance, pp. 96, 142 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
R.H. Dicks, ‘Preliminary Medical Notes on Herr Rudolf Hess’, 9 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/10, ff. 98 ff [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. Scott’s diary, 9 June 1941; op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
‘Dr. Guthrie, Dr. Mackenzie and Jonathan …’, 9 June 1941, 14.30–17.30 hrs, transcript, copy No. 2; Simon Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Box 88. All subsequent quotations from this source [RETURN TO CH 13]
H. Boberach, p. 2272 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See pp. 244–5, 248–50, 253, 255, 259 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
IMT, Defence Document Book ‘Rudolf Hess’; IWM FO 645/31, p. 150 [RETURN TO CH 13]
See p. 104 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
These notes in TNA FO 1093/1, ff. 135–6 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Lord Simon, ‘Rudolf Hess – Preliminary Report’ (m.s.), 10 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/1, ff. 2 ff; typed copy in PREM 3 219/7, f. 104 [RETURN TO CH 13]
‘Dr. Guthrie, Dr. Mackenzie …’; op. cit. ref. 63 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
See D. Irving, Hess, p. 135 [RETURN TO CH 13]
Col. Scott’s diary ‘Camp Z’, 9 June 1941, op. cit. ref. 21 above [RETURN TO CH 13]
7 July 1941; TNA KV 2/37, f. 55c [RETURN TO CH 13]
M. Evans to G.M. Liddell, 25 July 1941; ibid., f. 62a [RETURN TO CH 13]
‘Dr. Guthrie, Dr. Mackenzie …’; op. cit. ref. 63 above, p. 70, f. 144 [RETURN TO CH 13]
MI6 (illegible green ink signature) to Capt. Guy Liddell, 29 Aug. 1941; TNA KV 2/37, f. 66c [RETURN TO CH 13]
Chapter 14: The story leaks
‘Rudolf Hess – Preliminary Report’, 10 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/1, ff. 2 ff; also PREM 3 219/7, ff. 103 ff [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid. (PREM 3 219/7), f. 104 [RETURN TO CH 14]
‘To Sec. of State re. “Jonathan”’, undated, unsigned minute in Cadogan’s hand; TNA FO 1093/10, ff. 86–7 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Prime Minister’s ‘Personal Minute’ to Foreign Secretary, 14 June 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/5, f. 3 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Col. Scott’s diary, 14 June 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid., 15 June 1941 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Lt W.B. Malone’s report; in ibid. [RETURN TO CH 14]
R. Hess to A. Hitler, 14 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/1, ff. 47–50 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid., f. 50 [RETURN TO CH 14]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 14 June 1941; ibid., f. 51 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Erika Mann, ‘Hess meeting in Spain was fixed’; Glasgow Evening Citizen, (date missing) 1945, Ian Sayer archive [RETURN TO CH 14]
R. Hess to ‘Meinem Sohn’, 10–15 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/1, ff. 38–42 [RETURN TO CH 14]
R. Hess, ‘Aussergewöhnlich Zusammenkunft …’, 9 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/1, f. 55 [RETURN TO CH 14]
R. Hess, untitled note, 15 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/10, f. 78 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Col. Scott’s diary, 16 June 1941, p. 24; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21; Lt J. McI. Young’s account in ibid.; Maj. Dicks’ account in J.R. Rees, pp. 47–8 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Maj. Dicks’ account in ibid., p. 48 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Lt W.B. Malone’s report, 16 June 1941, in Col. Scott’s diary, pp. 26–8; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Col. J.R. Rees to Col. Coates, 19 June 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/3, f. 15 [RETURN TO CH 14]
See p. 256 above [RETURN TO CH 14]
Mallett to FO (wire), 9 June 1941; cited D. Irving, Hess, pp. 136, 352; and see I. Kershaw, Nemesis, p. 379 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Maj. Dicks; cited D. Irving, Hess, p. 150 [RETURN TO CH 14]
22 June 1941; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, p. 710 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Hansard, 19 June 1941, pp. 886 ff. [RETURN TO CH 14]
Cited D. Day, p. 184 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Hansard, 19 June 1941, pp. 900–1 [RETURN TO CH 14]
See J. Harris and M.J. Trow, p. 124 [RETURN TO CH 14]
K. Young, p. 98 [RETURN TO CH 14]
See S. McGinty, p. 187 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Lt M. Loftus, ‘Report on Conversation with Z’, 17 July 1941; Col. Scott’s diary, op. cit., Chapter 13, ref. 21 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 14]
Col. Scott’s diary, 20 July 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid., 27 July 1941 [RETURN TO CH 14]
‘Copy of Translation of Deposition by Z handed to 2nd Lt Loftus’; 1 Aug. 1941; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 14]
R. Hess, ‘Deutschland–England unter dem Gesichtswinkel des Krieges gegen die Sowjet-Union’, ‘Beaverbrook übergeben [handed to Beaverbrook] 9 Sept 1941’; Beaverbrook Papers, House of Lords Record Office, D/443; English translation in Col. Scott’s diary, 7 Aug. 1941; also in TNA FO 1093/12, ff. 115–26 [RETURN TO CH 14]
‘C’ to Maj. F. Foley, 11 Aug. 1941; TNA FO 1093/12, f. 127 [RETURN TO CH 14]
F. Foley to ‘C’, 12 Aug. 1941; ibid., f. 131 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 14]
Lt M.P.M. Loftus memo., undated; ibid., ff. 128–9 [RETURN TO CH 14]
K. de Courcy, Special Office Brief, 6 June 1984; and Special Office Brief Extra, 1 Mar. 1989; K. de Courcy to Anthony Pilcher (son of Col. W.S. Pilcher), 10 Nov. 1986; Jeremy Pilcher (son of Col. W.S. Pilcher) to Duc de Grantmesnil (K. de Courcy), 20 May 1986; K. de Courcy to author, 16 Apr. 1989, 26 Apr. 1990 [RETURN TO CH 14]
See TNA DPP 2/1056 [RETURN TO CH 14]
25 Nov. 1942; TNA DPP 2/1056 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 14]
G.M. Liddell to Brig. S.C. Menzies, 4 Dec. 1942; TNA KV 2/37, f. 128A [RETURN TO CH 14]
Richard Ford, ‘Nazi fraudster wins a reprieve from the grave’, The Times, 15 Mar. 2001. The present author comments, de Courcy was no Nazi. [RETURN TO CH 14]
Duc de Grantmesnil-Lorraine (K. de Courcy), ‘Confidential memo. on Col. W.S. Pilcher’; author’s collection; Grantmesnil, ‘The Hess Story’, Special Office Brief, 6 June 1984 [RETURN TO CH 14]
See R. Perry, pp. 36–7, 44–5 [RETURN TO CH 14]
K. de Courcy to author, 26 Apr. 1990 [RETURN TO CH 14]
M. Riley and S. Dorrill, p. 3 [RETURN TO CH 14]
R. Perry, passim [RETURN TO CH 14]
See obituary Lord Rothschild, Alan Hodgkin, The Independent, 22 Mar. 1990; and R. Perry, pp. 78, 88 [RETURN TO CH 14]
See R. Perry, pp. 91–3 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Guy Liddell’s diary, 21 Apr. 1940; N. West, p. 77 [RETURN TO CH 14]
2 Mar. 1940; ibid. p. 70 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Grantmesnil (K. de Courcy) note, 2 Aug. 1984, attached to note from Lord Newall, July 1984; author’s collection [RETURN TO CH 14]
Grantmesnil (K. de Courcy), ‘Confidential memo. on Col. W.S. Pilcher’ 19 June 1981; author’s collection; and Grantmesnil to Anthony Pilcher, 10 Nov. 1986 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Grantmesnil (K. de Courcy) to author, 26 Apr. 1990 [RETURN TO CH 14]
M. Riley and S. Dorrill, p. 3 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Grantmesnil (K. de Courcy), ‘The Hess story: the background’; Special Office Brief, No. 249 (new series), 8 June 1984 [RETURN TO CH 14]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 14]
Grantmesnil (K. de Courcy), ‘Confidential memo …’; op. cit. ref. 45 above [RETURN TO CH 14]
See pp. 109, 135 above [RETURN TO CH 14]
See pp. 227–8 above [RETURN TO CH 14]
Grantmesnil (K. de Courcy), m.s. draft for Special Office Brief, 1 Mar. 1989; author’s collection [RETURN TO CH 14]
Chapter 15: The ‘final solution’
See pp. 57, 146 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
Cited M. Gilbert, Holocaust, p. 152 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Schellenberg circular, 10a Js 39/60, p. 239; Landgericht München II; cited G. Fleming, pp. 44–5 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Note by the Prime Minister, ‘Syrian Policy’, 19 May 1941; cited M. Gilbert, Finest Hour, p. 1090 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See R. Breitman, esp. pp. 35–42 [RETURN TO CH 15]
20 June 1941; E. Fröhlich, Teil 1, Band 4, p. 705 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Lt W. Malone’s report, 13/14 July 1941; Col. Scott’s diary, op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21, p. 44 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See S. McGinty, pp. 183–4 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Col. Scott’s diary, 11 Aug. 1941, p. 92; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21, p. 92 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Typed memo. signed F.F., 16 Aug. 1941: TNA FO 1093/12, f. 130 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Report from Stephen Laird, 16 Aug. 1941; ibid. ff. 111–3 [RETURN TO CH 15]
F.H. Hinsley, p. 671 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Cited R. Breitman, p. 93 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid., p. 94 [RETURN TO CH 15]
F.H. Hinsley, p. 671 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Summary of Police Decodes 324–343 (3 July–14 Aug. 1941); TNA HW 16/6, part 1; cited R. Breitman, p. 96 [RETURN TO CH 15]
David Cesarini, ‘Secret Churchill Papers Released’, The Journal of Holocaust Education 4, No. 2 (1995), p. 226; cited ibid. [RETURN TO CH 15]
Lord Beaverbrook to Hess, 1 Sept 1941; Beaverbrook Papers, House of Lords Record Office, D443 [RETURN TO CH 15]
R. Hess to Beaverbrook, 4 Sept. 1941; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 15]
Col. Scott’s diary, 2 Sept. 1941, p. 101; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21; and see 5 Sept. 1941, ibid., p. 102 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid., 8 Sept. 1941, p. 103 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Transcript ‘Dr. Livingstone and Jonathan’ 9 Sept. 1941, 19.30 hrs, p. 1; Beaverbrook Papers, House of Lords Record Office, D443 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid., pp. 4–5 [RETURN TO CH 15]
R. Hess, ‘Deutschland–England …’; op. cit. Chapter 14, ref. 34 [RETURN TO CH 15]
‘Dr. Livingstone and Jonathan’; op. cit., ref. 23 above, p. 8 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Col. Scott’s diary, 9 Sept. 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21, p. 103 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Bruce Lockhart’s diary, 4 Sept. 1943; K. Young, p. 256; see also Beaverbrook to J. Leasor, 20 Feb. 1961; Beaverbrook Papers, op. cit. ref. 19 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
J. Leasor to author, 22 June 1990 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See Sir S. Cripps (Moscow) to FO, No. 502, 13 May 1941; TNA FO 1093/11, ff. 146–7 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Vadim to Moscow, No. 376, 14 May 1941; NKVD file No. 20566 ‘Black Bertha’, released to Press June 1990 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid., No. 338, 18 May 1941 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Reports from agents ‘GIT’, ‘JUN’, ‘FRANKFURTER’, ‘EXTERN’ from ibid.; cited J. Costello, pp. 437, 577 [RETURN TO CH 15]
‘ANGLETERRE Affaire Hess’, No. 398/B, 5 Sept. 1941; cited J. Costello, pp. 452–3, 581 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Evening Standard, 15 Sept. 1959; cited J. Leasor to Lord Beaverbrook; Beaverbrook Papers, ref. 19 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
Lord Beaverbrook to J. Leasor, 20 May 1961; ibid. [RETURN TO CH 15]
Raymond Lee to Brig. Gen. Sherman Miles, 5 Nov. 1941; Nat. Archives, Washington, B8 026020; and see J. Leutze, pp. 437, 441–2 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid., p. 2 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See p. 244 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
H. Hopkinson memo., 10 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/10, f. 94 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Raymond Lee to Sherman Miles; op. cit. ref. 37 above, p. 7 [RETURN TO CH 15]