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Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid., p. 4 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See J. Costello, pp. 447–8, 550 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See pp. 269, 273 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
See Jock Colville’s account pp. 191 ff above; and see Raymond E. Lee’s account in J. Leutze, pp. 270–4 [RETURN TO CH 15]
R. Heydrich to Reichsaussenminister, 4 May 1942; F & CO 434005 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Annex, pp. 1–2; ibid., 434006-7 [RETURN TO CH 15]
pp. 4–5; ibid., 434009-10 [RETURN TO CH 15]
W. Schellenberg, pp. 200–2 [RETURN TO CH 15]
W. Schellenberg to Unterstaatssekretär [Auswärtigen], 10 Aug. 1942; F & CO 434016-7 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See Luther to von Rintelen, 27 June 1942; ibid., 434013 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See Ilse Hess to RFSS (Reichsführer-SS – Himmler), 16 May 1943; Nat. Archives, Washington, T-175, Roll 65, ff. 2581214-5; and see letter (signature indecipherable) from Reichssicherheitshauptamt to SS-Obersturmbannführer Brandt, 3 Aug. 1943; IWM H/28/431 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See A. Kramish, pp. 81–7 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Col. Scott’s diary, 19 Nov. 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21, p. 125 [RETURN TO CH 15]
A. Kramish, pp. 126–9 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See, for instance, medical orderly’s report, 2 Sept. 1941; cited D. Irving, Hess, p. 17 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Col. Scott’s diary, 4 Dec. 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21, p. 132 [RETURN TO CH 15]
R. Hess statement at Nuremberg IMT; cited J.R. Rees, pp. 96 ff [RETURN TO CH 15]
See p. 222 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
See Dominions’ Office to Dominion Governments, 5 Nov. 1942; TNA FO 371/30920, f. 219; and A. Eden to Sir A. Clark Kerr, 22 Oct. 1942; TNA PREM 3 319/6, f. 39 [RETURN TO CH 15]
NKVD rezident London to Moscow, N.450, 21 Oct. 1942; file No. 20566 ‘Black Bertha’, NKVD Archives, Moscow [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 15]
Cited R. Schmidt, pp. 148, 319 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See p. 284 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
Sir A. Clark Kerr to FO, No. 281, 25 Oct 1942; TNA PREM 3 219/6, f. 34 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Ibid., No. 280, f. 33 [RETURN TO CH 15]
Memorandum by the Lord Privy Seal, ‘The facts about Rudolf Hess’, printed for the War Cabinet, W.P.(42)502, 2 Nov. 1942; TNA FO 371/30920, ff. 263 ff [RETURN TO CH 15]
FO to Moscow, No. 332, 4 Nov. 1942; ibid., ff. 217–8 [RETURN TO CH 15]
See pp. 226 ff above [RETURN TO CH 15]
See p. 274 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
See p. 234 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
See pp. 207, 223 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
Sir A. Clark Kerr to FO; op. cit. ref. 66 above [RETURN TO CH 15]
Chapter 16: The real story?
Anonymous, American Mercury, May 1943; reprinted in The Journal of Historical Review, Autumn 1982, pp. 291–99 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid., p. 295 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ernst W. Bohle interrogation, 26 Sept. 1945; IWM FO 645 Box 185, pp. 6–7, 10–11; and see p. 298 above [RETURN TO CH 16]
See pp. 121 ff above [RETURN TO CH 16]
Karl Haushofer interrogation, 5 Oct. 1945; IWM FO 645 Box 155, p. 15 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
J. Friedmann and Klaus Wiegrefe, ‘Historian Uncovers New Account’, Spiegel (online), 30 May 2011; and see Matthew Day, ‘Hitler knew of Hess’s 1941 peace flight to Britain …’, The Daily Telegraph, 1 June 2011 [RETURN TO CH 16]
See The Times, 5 Oct. 1942; and Mallet (Stockholm) to FO, 23 Oct. 1942, No. 779; TNA FO 371/30941 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Translation in ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
Journal of Historical Review, op. cit. ref. 1 above, pp. 294, 296 [RETURN TO CH 16]
See p. 209 above [RETURN TO CH 16]
Journal of Historical Review, op. cit., ref. 1 above, p. 297 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid., p. 292 [RETURN TO CH 16]
See The Scotsman, 23 Sept. 1943; and W.R. Hess, My Father, p. 186; and TNA INF 1/912, ff. 76–9 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Guy Ramsay, ‘The Daily Life of Hess in Prison Camp’, Daily Mail, 1 Sept 1943 [RETURN TO CH 16]
See D. Irving, Hess, pp. 238 ff [RETURN TO CH 16]
See draft wire to Washington, 3 Sept. 1943; TNA INF 1/912, f. 75 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Eden’s statement in the Commons; The Times, 23 Sept 1943 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
See pp. 302–3 above [RETURN TO CH 16]
See pp. 227 ff above [RETURN TO CH 16]
‘Record of talks at the Kremlin at supper, 18 Oct. 1944’ compiled (from memory) by Sir A. Clark Kerr and Mr Birse; TNA PREM 3 434/7 [RETURN TO CH 16]
BCS (?) to J.M. Martin, 6 Apr. 1945; TNA INF 1/912, f. 80 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid., f. 81 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid., ff. 83–6 [RETURN TO CH 16]
‘Additional Notes …’ op. cit. Chapter 10, ref. 123 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Prime Minister’s personal minute to Sec. of State for Air, 7 Apr. 1945; TNA INF 1/912, f. 97 [RETURN TO CH 16]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 8 Jan 1948; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 166 [RETURN TO CH 16]
P. Bloom re. Walter Fenton, Deben Journal, Suffolk, 5 Dec. 1985 [RETURN TO CH 16]
See D. Irving, Hess, p. 244 [RETURN TO CH 16]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 10 Mar. 1947; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 123 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
Cited J.R. Rees, p. 114 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Cited A. Bullock, p. 226 [RETURN TO CH 16]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 18 June 1945; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 102 [RETURN TO CH 16]
D. Kelley, pp. 22–3 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid., p. 23 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Testimony of Rudolf Hess, 9 Oct. 1945; IWM FO 645 Box 155 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
K. Haushofer to Max Hofweber, 14 Nov. 1945; H.-A. Jacobsen, Band 2, p. 442 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Dr J. Delay and others, 20 Nov. 1945; Prosecution Document File, IWM FO 645 Box 151 [RETURN TO CH 16]
W. Shirer, End of, p. 293 [RETURN TO CH 16]
T. Taylor, pp. 177–8 [RETURN TO CH 16]
G. Gilbert, pp. 29–30 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
IMT vol. 2, p. 447 [RETURN TO CH 16]
30 Nov. 1945; ibid., pp. 479 ff [RETURN TO CH 16]
B.C. Andrus, The Infamous of Nuremberg, 1969; cited J. Douglas-Hamilton, Motive, p. 276 [RETURN TO CH 16]
G. Gilbert, p. 36; and see E. Bird, p. 57 [RETURN TO CH 16]
IMT vol. 22, pp. 368–73 [RETURN TO CH 16]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 25 Jan. 1946; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 104 [RETURN TO CH 16]
IMT 3245-PS; quotation from IMT vol. 7, p. 136 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Lt Col. William H. Dunn, ‘Report on present mental state of Rudolf Hess’; Medical Reports File, Quinlan Papers, IWM FO 645, Box 455; and see D. Kelley, p. 30 [RETURN TO CH 16]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 31 Aug. 1946; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 110 [RETURN TO CH 16]
See A. Seidl, pp. 11 ff; see D. Irving, Hess, p. 329 [RETURN TO CH 16]
IMT vol. 22, pp. 368–73 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Judgement, 30 Sept. 1946; IMT vol. 22, pp. 487–9 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Sentence, 1 Oct. 1946; ibid., p. 529 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Ibid. [RETURN TO CH 16]
G. Gilbert, p. 272 [RETURN TO CH 16]
I.T. Nikitchenko, ‘Concerning the sentence on the defendant, Rudolf Hess’
, in ‘Dissenting Opinion of the Soviet Member of the International Military Tribunal’, IMT vol. 22, pp. 540–1 [RETURN TO CH 16]
Chapter 17: Spandau
A. Speer, Spandau, pp. 71–2 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Cited E. Bird, p. 70 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Cited ibid., p. 69 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Pastor Casalis to Prison Directorate, Apr. 1950; cited W.R. Hess, My Father, pp. 264 ff [RETURN TO CH 17]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 5 Oct. 1947; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 158 [RETURN TO CH 17]
A. Speer, Spandau, p. 124 [RETURN TO CH 17]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 13 Oct. 1946; I. Hess, Schicksal, p. 118 [RETURN TO CH 17]
R. Hess to Ilse Hess, 26 Sept. 1946; ibid., p. 113 [RETURN TO CH 17]
A. Speer, Spandau, p. 147: ‘I wonder what is prompting Hess to come out with all these old crazy tricks again.’ [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 400; and see p. 429 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 196 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 270 [RETURN TO CH 17]
E. Bird, p. 137 [RETURN TO CH 17]
A. Speer, Spandau, p. 343 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid. p. 442 [RETURN TO CH 17]
See E. Bird, p. 164 [RETURN TO CH 17]
See ibid., p. 237; and C.A. Gabel, p. 172 [RETURN TO CH 17]
But see T. Le Tissier, p. 56: ‘A summary made from F & CO records shows that there were a total of 27 Allied appeals to the Soviet authorities, and that the British government participated in all but three of them. The UK was alone among the Western Allies in appealing at Ministerial level, and did so routinely from 1970 on 13 separate occasions.’ [RETURN TO CH 17]
See E. Bird, pp. 152–3 [RETURN TO CH 17]
A. Speer, Spandau; Erinnerungen [RETURN TO CH 17]
C.A. Gabel, p. 239, 7 Sept. 1983 [RETURN TO CH 17]
E. Bird, pp. 225–6 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 226 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 275 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., pp. 10–11, 222 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 12 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., pp. 171–2 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., pp. 173–4 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., pp. 194 ff [RETURN TO CH 17]
W.R. Hess, My Father, p. 286 [RETURN TO CH 17]
E. Bird, p. 252 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., pp. 264–5 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 265 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., pp. 280–1 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Desmond Zwar to author, 12 Mar. 2012 [RETURN TO CH 17]
See C.A. Gabel, p. 22 [RETURN TO CH 17]
E. Bird, p. 223 [RETURN TO CH 17]
C.A. Gabel, p. 73 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 151 [RETURN TO CH 17]
See, for instance, ibid., pp. 59, 90, 197, 254–5, 290 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 59, 14 Feb. 1979 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., pp. 290–1, 3 Oct. 1984 [RETURN TO CH 17]
E. Bird, p. 276 [RETURN TO CH 17]
C.A. Gabel, p. 351 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Ibid., p. 174 [RETURN TO CH 17]
A. Melaouhi, Rudolf Hess, pp. 101–2 [RETURN TO CH 17]
C.A. Gabel, p. 394 [RETURN TO CH 17]
Chapter 18: Final audit
Eden’s statement, The Times, 23 Sept. 1943 [RETURN TO CH 18]
E. Bird, p. 252 [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA FO 1093/1 [RETURN TO CH 18]
S. McGinty, pp. 14–16 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Col. Scott’s diary, ‘Camp Z’, 29 May 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21 [RETURN TO CH 18]
‘Dr. Guthrie and Jonathan’, transcript 9 June 1941; Bodleian Lib., Oxford, Box 88, ff. 53 f [RETURN TO CH 18]
Col. Scott’s diary, ‘Camp Z’, 1 Aug. 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Von Bechtold statement, 30 Apr. 1946; Nat. Archives, Washington, RG 238 Box 180; cited D. Irving, Hess, p. 64 [RETURN TO CH 18]
R. Hess, ‘Aussergewöhnlich Zusammenkunft …’, 9 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/1, f. 55 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Hamilton’s diary 1941; 20 Jan. ‘Duke of Kent. Lunch’; 23 Jan. ‘Duke of Kent. Prestwick’; cited Picknett, Prince, Prior, p. 282 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 112 above; TNA FO 371 26542, C1687 (released Nov. 2007) [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA KV 2/1684, Doc. 45A [RETURN TO CH 18]
‘Rudolf Hess – Preliminary Report’, 10 June 1941; TNA FO 1093/1, ff. 2 ff [RETURN TO CH 18]
Lt Loftus report, ‘Conversation with Z’; Col. Scott’s diary, ‘Camp Z’, 17 July 1941; op. cit. Chapter 13, ref. 21 [RETURN TO CH 18]
L. Picknett, C. Prince, S. Prior, p. 269 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Sqdn LDr F. Day to author, 11 June 1992, 15 May 2001 [RETURN TO CH 18]
R. Williams to author, 7 Oct. 2009, 1 Oct. 2011 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See TNA KV 3/277 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Hitler and Mussolini had used ‘social credit’ principles to turn round their devastated economies; R. Williams to author, 1 Oct. 2011 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Duke of Bedford to R.R. Stokes, 10 May 1941; copy sent to Lloyd George by Stokes 5 June 1941; Lloyd George Papers, G/19/3/26, House of Lords Record Office; cited D. Day, p. 184 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Letter dated 15 May; TNA INF 1/912 [RETURN TO CH 18]
The Yorkshire Post, 4 Nov. 1969 [RETURN TO CH 18]
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 18]
J. Douglas to author, 13 May 1991 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Mrs N.-H. Goodall to author, 26 May, 12, 14 June 1991 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Hong Kong Telegraph, 6 Mar. 1947; cited Picknett, Prince, Prior, p. 199 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 174–5 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 177–8, 183–4 above; Duty Officer Clyde Sub-Area Report night 10th May 1941; TNA WO 199/3288A [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 177–8 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 191–4 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
Deutschlandsender 14.00, 13 May 1941; IWM (Duxford) Box A 216 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Cited R. Schmidt, pp. 148, 319 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Cited J. Costello, pp. 452–3, 581 [RETURN TO CH 18]
NKVD resident London to Moscow, Nr. 450, 21 Oct. 1942; file No. 20566 ‘Black Bertha’, NKVD archives, Moscow [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 108 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
Record of talks at the Kremlin at supper, Oct. 18 1944; TNA PREM 3 434/7 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 133–5 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 149 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
Interrogation of Karl Haushofer by Col. Howard A. Brundage, 5 Oct. 1945, p. 15; IWM (Duxford) FO 645, Box 155 [RETURN TO CH 18]
‘Interview with Professor Karl Haushofer’ 28 Sept. 1945, Office of Strategic Services, Washington, p. 4; US Nat. Archives, RG 226, E19, Box 315, XL22853 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See Ernst Haiger, p. 113; and Ernst Haiger to author, 17 Mar. 2008 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 111–2 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA FO 371 26542, C1687 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 121–3 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 131, 137–8 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 142–3 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
J. Colville, p. 383 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 233 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA FO 371 26542, C6049/324/18 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 231–2 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See Richard Deacon, ‘C’: A Biography of Sir Maurice Oldfield Head of MI6, Macdonald, 1985, pp. 86–7; and cited in Bild-Zeitung, 16 Mar. 1981 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 288 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
> See p. 76 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 242 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See pp. 121–2 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 128 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
Spence (?) to Maj. P. Perfect, 19 May 1941; TNA KV 2/34 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Cited John Harris, ‘Witness’; BBC History Magazine, May 2001, p. 53 [RETURN TO CH 18]
C. Gabel, p. 174 [RETURN TO CH 18]
A. Melaouhi, Rudolf Hess, pp. 201–2 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 207 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 228 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 146 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 273 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 259 above; R. Hess, ‘Aussergewöhnlich Zusammenkunft …’, TNA FO 1093/1, f. 55 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 248 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 300 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 294 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 302 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
Sir A. Clark Kerr to FO, 25 Oct. 1942, No. 281; TNA PREM 3 219/6, f. 34 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See J. Costello, ‘Royal insurance for a traitor’, The Times, 13 Oct. 1988; also Richard Brooks, ‘Traitor Blunt apologises from beyond grave’, Sunday Times, 21 Oct. 2001 [RETURN TO CH 18]
A. Clark, Barbarossa, p. 40 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 280 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA PREM 3 219/4, ff. 16–17 [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 167 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 223 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
TNA FO 1093/12, f. 130 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Prime Minister’s personal minute to Sec. of State for Air, 7 April 1945; TNA INF 1/192, f. 97 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 328 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 330 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See W.R. Hess, Mord, pp. 101–2 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Prof. W. Eisenmenger and W. Spann, ‘Zusammenfassung der Befunde’; cited W.R. Hess, Mord, p. 215 [RETURN TO CH 18]
Obituary, Professor David Bowen, The Daily Telegraph, 13 Apr. 2011 [RETURN TO CH 18]
See p. 14 above [RETURN TO CH 18]
See Hamilton to J. Martin, 18 May 1941; TNA PREM 3 219/7, f. 137; J.M. Martin to W.I. Mallet, 10 Downing Street, 18 May 1941; TNA FO 1093/11, f. 107 [RETURN TO CH 18]
B.C.S. to J.M. Martin, 6 Apr. 1945; TNA INF 1/912, f. 80 [RETURN TO CH 18]